Roundtable Meeting on Programme for the 2010 Round of Censuses of Agriculture Bangkok, Thailand 28 November-2 December, 2005 VILLAGE LEVEL SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA COLLECTION AND ITS USE OF CAMBODIA By Seng Soeurn National Institute of Statistics, Cambodia

Between 1963 and 1993, absent of Household Surveys and Censuses. In 1993 National Institute of Statistics of the Ministry of Planning was assigned as a central government agency. The national Institute of Statistics has conducted five Cambodia Socio-Economic Surveys: , 1996, 1997, 1999 and newly completed its final round of Background

 The 1998 Population Census has implemented and provided a much more complete demographic picture and has introduced a new era of sampling.  Many other surveys also have been conducted: Survey of Industrial Establishments 1993 and 2000, Labor Force Survey 2000 and 2001, Demographic Survey 1996, Demographic and Health Survey 2000 and 2004, etc.  Since 2001 a Compilation of Commune Database has been adopted and implemented.  Agriculture-based surveys: Cost Production Survey and Crops Cutting Survey of Paddy and Maize. Background (cont.)

Experience of Various Household Socio-Economic Survey Survey round and sample size are vary according to each survey Inconsistency between surveys, seasonality problems, different rounds used, sampling issues, etc. Budget implement is mainly based on aid funding and different donors

A recently survey round 2003/04, National Institute of Statistics and other stakeholders decided to establish new baseline, using the diary method with 15,000hhs Long training (3 weeks plus briefing sessions) of enumerators and supervisors Systematically supervision of fieldwork by core staff Close to 100 percent respondent rate Experience of Various Household Socio-Economic Survey

Data collection About interviewers and supervisors were involved, comprising of central level through local level The interviewers canvassed from the respondents (usually the head of the household) and entered in the questionnaire Questionnaire design were comprehensive discussed various stakeholders

Uses of questionnaire There are 4 types questionnaire: - Listing sheet - Village questionnaire - Household questionnaire (income and expenditures) - Diary sheet - Time use

Building type (where the housing occupied) Name of household head Address of household Number of household members Principal economic activity of the household Disable members of the household Listing of households

Household questionnaire Demographic characteristics Education and literacy Economic characteristics Health Housing particular Household consumption expenditures and main source of income Household assets and liabilities Fertility and child care

Household questionnaire (cont.) Durables goods Construction activities Nutrition Fertility and child care Mortality HIV/AIDS Victimization Time sue survey

Demographic information Economic infrastructures Rainfall and natural disasters Education Health Retail prices Employment wages Access to common property resources during the last 5 years Sales prices of agriculture land in the village Recruitment of children for work outside the village Village questionnaire

Main topics for Agriculture collected in the household survey Landownership Production of crops Hypothetical questions on rental and sales market Inputs and outputs of livestock raising activities Input and outputs from fish cultivation and fishing/trapping of aquatic products Inputs and outputs from forestry and hunting Inventory of household non-agricultural economic activities

Uses of data to compile social and economic indicators (Statistical year book) Used for national accounts and consumer price index To prepare for national strategic development plan (NSDP) To prepare commune policy and development plans To monitor poverty trend (poverty line, poverty statistics) and Cambodia Millennium Development Goals To monitor sectoral development plan For users (researchers, policy-makers) For local and international non-governmental

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