The National Statistics Office, NSO, is resuming the Household Income and Expenditure Survey, HIES, 2024-2025 from rounds 10 to 22 towards 48 field rounds by mid-October 2025, after a break for the Christmas and New Year festivities.
The survey resumed on Monday 6th January 2024 with enumeration in the selected Enumerated Areas within all provinces and Honiara, and villages and communities should expect to see a Statistics survey team coming to interview their households.
On Thursday 10th January 2024, the Project Manager for the Building Capacity in Statistics and Audit, CAPSA which comprises of the HIES, Gordon Denty and Resident Statistics Adviser Dr Cengiz Ozkan went out to observe Honiara’s HIES Team 4 in April Valley, East Honiara.
They were able to see firsthand the progress and practicality of the interview questions and how the participants respond.
They were particularly interested in the length of time it took for the interviewer to go through the different sections in the survey.
Mr Denty said they will be going out routinely to observe the enumerators in the field and see how the participants respond to the questions according to the different settings.
“We are interested to see how people answer the different questions in a different setting, like in some areas in town the questions might be practical to them so it will be easy for them to respond, while in other areas not so much.”
The HIES is a 12-month survey implemented by the Solomon Islands National Statistics Office with funding support from the World Bank under component 2 of the Building Capacity in Statistics and Audit, CAPSA project, a partnership between the Solomon Islands Government and World Bank.
The NSO kindly asks the public to assist and cooperate with the survey enumerators when visiting your household in providing data.
The enumerators will be wearing Hies T-shirts in blue and grey with identification cards.
The NSO, is guided and authorized by a legislation, the Statistics (amendments 2007). Anyone not cooperating or giving false information to field survey officers can be prosecuted by the law that governs this statistical operation and collection.
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