Overview
Abstract
The HSES is a nationally representative survey that aims to estimate and monitor the level of poverty of the country and people's living standards. It aims to update consumption weights for the Consumer Price Index baskets and estimate private consumption expenditure for the national accounts (GDP). Before HSES, Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) was a main survey and then since 2007, instead of HIES, HSES has been implemented in the current form.
The data is collected over 12 months and the main comprehensive form of the survey for poverty estimation has been implemented biennially since 2012. A short-form survey is conducted once every two years when the main comprehensive survey is not conducted. As for the data collection method, HSES has adapted computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) method since 2014.
Survey questionnaire
The 2015 HSES was conducted in the comprehensive form, consisting of two sub-questionnaires with 11 modules in total. These include:
· Household socio-economic questionnaire (HSES-1): The questionnaire HSES-1 aims to collect general information about the household characteristics, employment, livestock breeding and crop farming, non-agricultural manufacturing, trade, services, dwelling and energy, durable goods, and non-food expenditure data.
· Household food consumption questionnaire (HSES-2a, HSES-2b): A combination of both a household diary and a recall methods are used to measure food consumption in the HSES survey. A thirty day diary (HSES-2a) compiled by an enumerator every 10 days, for three times during a single month is used to capture food consumption of hosueholds in Ulaanbataar and Aimag centers. A 7 day recall period questionnaire (HSES-2b) is used to capture food consumption in Soum Centers and the countryside.
The survey is nationally representative and covers the whole of Mongolia.
Households (defined as a group of persons who usually live and eat together)
- Household members (defined as members of the household who usually live in the household, which may include people who did not sleep in the household the previous night, but does not include visitors who slept in the household the previous night but do not usually live in the household)
