Lao Expenditure and Consumption Survey 2002/2003
Highlights:
The Lao Expenditure and Consumption Survey (LECS) covers a wide range of subject matter areas related to the household living situation. The survey is the third of this type; the first was conducted in 1992/93 and the second one in 1997/98. The objectives of the LECS are basically to provide:
- Macro estimates for the National Accounts, both private consumption and household investment and income from agriculture and business.
- Data for revising the weighing system for the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
- Estimates of poverty rates and income distribution
Contents:
- The Households in Lao PDR
- Consumption and Rice intake
- Consumption
- Daily intake of rice and some other food
- Access to and usage of resources
and institutional services
- Health environment and prevention
- Health services
- Health assessments and health seeking behavior
- Educational services
- Knowledge
- Land and productive assets
- Infrastructure
- Economic Activities of the Households
- Economic activity and employment
- Agricultural production
- Household businesses
- Productivity
- Restrictions
- Household investments/construction
- Possession of goods
- Sustainable use of land
- Time use
Purpose |
The objectives of the LECS are basically to provide,
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Target population |
All
non-institutional households in Lao PDR |
Survey period |
12
months, from March 2002 to February 2003 |
Survey design |
Survey
units are households, villages, village markets (prices) and primary
schools. LECS used six survey instruments: a diary to record household
transactions, a household questionnaire, a time use diary, a price collection
form, a village questionnaire and a primary school questionnaire.The
household transactions diary was kept for one month. The time use diary
covered a randomly selected 24-hour period. The price collection covered
92 commodities. |
Sample design |
A
two-stage sampling scheme was used. At the first stage a sample of villages
was selected by PPS sampling. The villages were stratified by province
and within province by urban villages, rural villages with access to
road and rural villages without access to road (54 strata). The number
of sample villages in the province ranged from 12 to 48. The sample
of villages in each province was allocated randomly to a survey month
so that each of the 12 survey months had approximately the same number
of sample villages. In the second stage a systematic sample of 15 households
was selected in each sample village. The selection was based on an updated
list of households in the villages at the time of the survey. |
Sample size |
49
970 persons in 8092 households in 540 villages. Non-response negligible. |
Survey content |
Household level:
Village level:
Primary school:
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