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Household Socio-Economic Survey 2011

Mongolia, 2011
Reference ID
MNG_2011_HSES_v01_M_ILO
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office of Mongolia
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Other household surveys
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  • Study Description
  • Data Description
  • Documentation
  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Data Processing
  • Data access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
MNG_2011_HSES_v01_M_ILO
Title
Household Socio-Economic Survey 2011
Country
Name Country code
Mongolia MNG
Series Name
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
Series Information
The Household Socio-Economic Survey (HSES) 2011 is an improved version of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (which had been conducted regularly since 1966). It is the lat­est among other household surveys implemented by the NSO to evaluate the living standards of the Mon­golian population such as the Assessment of the Living Standards of the Population of Mongolia, 1995; the Living Standards Measurement Survey, 1998; and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey/Liv­ing Standards Measurement Survey, 2002/03. The HSES is a permanent survey and every three years it will feature an extended version. This will not only allow monitoring poverty and living standards annually but also to capture additional information in order to help the government to design better policies.
Abstract
The HSES 2011 is a nationally representa­tive survey, which aims to evalu­ate and monitor the income and expenditure of households, update the basket and weights for consumer price index, and offer inputs to the national accounts. The HSES is a survey regularly conducted by the NSO and covers a 12-month period for analysis.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags. Ulaanbaatar is the capital city and is subdivided into 9 districts, 121 khoroos and 1,035 khesegs. Each kheseg has approximately 200 households. The rest of the country is divided into soums and bags. One of the soums in each aimag is normatively considered as the aimag center, while the others are regarded as the rural area.

Version

Version number
Version 01

Scope

Study notes
The scope of the Household Socio-Economic includes:

- Basic socio-economic information about the members of the household
- Education
- Health
- Re­productive health
- Migration
- Employment
- Wage jobs
- Job search
- Agriculture and herding
- Non-farm family businesses
- Other income
- Savings and loans,
- Housing and energy
- Durable goods
- Non­food expenditures and food consumption.
Topic Classification
Topic Vocabulary URI
consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1] CESSDA Link
economic conditions and indicators [1.2] CESSDA Link
unemployment [3.5] CESSDA Link
working conditions [3.6] CESSDA Link
employment [3.1] CESSDA Link
basic skills education [6.1] CESSDA Link
general health [8.4] CESSDA Link
housing [10.1] CESSDA Link
land use and planning [10.2] CESSDA Link
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS [12] CESSDA Link
fertility [14.2] CESSDA Link
migration [14.3] CESSDA Link
Keywords
Keyword
HSES
LSMS
NSO

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
The survey is nationally representative and covers the whole of Mongolia.
Geographic Unit
Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags. Ulaanbaatar is the capital city and is subdivided into 9 districts, 121 khoroos and 1,035 khesegs. Each kheseg has approximately 200 households. The rest of the country is divided into soums and bags. One of the soums in each aimag is normatively considered as the aimag center, while the others are regarded as the rural area. Darkhan-Uul and Orkhon were the only two aimags were 24 bags were selected.
Universe
- 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)

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity/Primary investigators
Agency Name Affiliation
National Statistical Office of Mongolia Mongolian People's Republic
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
World Bank, Mongolia WB Technical assistance
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
World bank WB Funding of survey implementation

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The 2011 HSES used the sampling frame which was devel­oped by the NSO based on 2005 population figures obtained from local registration offices. This updated sampling frame was of great importance because the spatial dis­tribution of the population had changed dramati­cally over the last years and any frame based on the Census 2000 would not be relevant anymore.

The design of the survey recognizes three ex­plicit strata: Ulaanbaatar, aimag centers, and soum centers and the countryside. In addition, the sample was implicitly allocated by districts and khoroos in Ulaanbaatar, and by aimags in rural areas. Each aimag center was an explicit sub-stratum. The selection strategy was different in each stratum: a two-stage process in urban areas and a three-stage process in rural areas. In Ulaanbaatar, 360 khesegs were initially selected, from each of which 10 households were chosen. In aimag centers, 12 or 24 bags were initially selected, and then 10 house­holds from each bag. In rural areas, first 52 soums, then 12 bags in each soum and fi­nally 8 households in each bag were selected. All 1,248 primary sampling units or clusters (units, bags or soums) were selected with a probability proportional to their sizes and were randomly allocated into twelve months of survey fieldwork.
The use of this sampling procedure means that households living in different areas of the coun­try have been selected with different probabilities. Therefore, in order to obtain representative sta­tistics for each stratum and for the coun­try as a whole, it was necessary to use sampling weights. The weight which was assigned to each household corresponds to the inverse of the selection probability and takes the sampling strategy into account.

The sample of 11,232 households was allocated as follows: 3,600 in Ulaanbaatar, 2,640 in aimag centers and 4,992 in rural areas and soum centers. However, the actual sample size used for this analysis is slightly smaller: 3,572 households in Ulaanbaatar; 2,639 in aimag centers; and 4,987 in rural areas and small towns. The difference is explained by 60 households, for which complete information was unavailable and were thus, excluded.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
Start date End date
2011 2011
Time periods (YYYY/MM/DD)
Start date End date
2011-01-01 2011-12-01
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Characteristics of Data Collection Situation - Notes on data collection
The overall data quality is to be considered of good standard. On the one hand, the large amounts of information that the HSES collects from households imposed new demands on op­erational strategies and data management com­pared to the previous HIES.
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
National Statistical Office NSO Parliamnet of Mongolia

Questionnaires

Type of Research Instrument
The questionnaire of HSES 2007/08 contains 15 major mod­ules: basic socio-economic information about the members of the household, education, health, re­productive health, migration, employment, wage jobs, job search, agriculture and herding, non-farm family businesses, other income, savings and loans, housing and energy, durable goods, non­food expenditures and food consumption. Also contains 4 additional modules: purchases of food during the past month for urban households (by recall ), consumption of food and other frequenty purchased commodities for urban households (from diary), purchases of food during the part month for rural households, consumption of food during the past 7 days (by recall ) for rural households.

Data Processing

Cleaning Operations
All procedures were streamlined and centralized, which is likely to have had a positive impact on the quality of the infor­mation. On the other hand, three different rounds of consistency checks were applied to the data: first during the data entry process, then during the compilation of the raw data files and finally during the preparation of this report. In all cases it was possible to compare these listings against the actual questionnaires filled out by the households (and at least during the first round of checks, some households were visited again) and the data were amended whenever a mistake was found.Databases for the HSES 2011 have been unified and data error checking was made (by using STATA program) in cooperation with working group.

Data access

Contact
Name Affiliation Email URI
National Statistical Office (NSO) Mongolian People's Republic info@nso.mn Link
Confidentiality Declaration
Users of the data agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets.
Conditions
Survey datasets are distributed at no cost for legitimate academic research, with the condition that we receive an abstract or a detailed description of any research project that will be using the data prior to authorizing their distribution. Once received, the datasets must not be passed on to other researchers without the written consent of either NSO or World Bank. Copies of all reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to NSO and World Bank.
Citation requirement
The following statement must be used as citation: "Source of data: National Statistical Office of Mongolia, Household Socio-Economic Survey 2011, Version 1.0 of the dataset (2011), provided by World bank"
Contact
Name Affiliation Email URI
National Statistical Office (NSO) Mongolian People's Republic info@nso.mn Link

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The National Statistical Office of Mongolia and World Bank provide these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. They accept no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.
Copyright
National Statistical Office of Mongolia and World bank

Metadata production

Document ID
DDI_MNG_2011_HSES_v01_M_ILO
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Department of Statistics ILO International Labour Organization Production of DDI
Date of Production
2017-04-28
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