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Household Socio-Economic Survey 2012

Iraq, 2012 - 2013
Agriculture Census and Surveys
Organization for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT), Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO)
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  • Documentation
  • Data Description
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  • Identification
  • Scope
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  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Access policy
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  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
IRQ_2012_HSES-W2_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Title
Household Socio-Economic Survey 2012
Country
Name Country code
Iraq IRQ
Study type
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
Series Information
This is the second nationwide Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey (IHSES-II) which was conducted in 2012. The first round of the Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey (IHSES-I) was conducted in 2006-2007.
Abstract
The Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey conducted in 2006-2007 (IHSES 2007), was Iraq's first nationwide income and expenditure survey since 1988. Based on the model of the Living Standards Measurement Surveys, it covered more than 18,000 households, collected detailed data on all aspects of household income and expenditure and generated information on a wide variety of socio-economic indicators. It also formed the basis for updating the Consumer Price Index (CPI), from an outdated index based in 1990 to a revised index with the base year of 2007. Detailed analysis of poverty, its incidence, characteristics, determinants and consequences, was undertaken using this comprehensive survey. Under the overall guidance of the Poverty Reduction Strategy High Committee (PRSHC) and a technical sub-committee, a poverty line was defined and adopted by the Council of Ministers. Six years later, in 2012, the second round of the IHSES was completed. Learning from past and international experience on survey design, implementation and sampling, IHSES 2012 also incorporated additional modules on areas of evolving interest. It is the most comprehensive socio-economic survey as yet undertaken in Iraq.

Objectives of the survey:
1) to provide data to help measure and analyse poverty and monitor the implementation of the national strategy to alleviate poverty (issued in 2009) and update it with a new strategy
2) to provide an integrated system of data to assess the social and economic situation of families and develop indicators related to human development
3) to provide data meeting the requirements and needs of the national accounts
4) to provide detailed indicators of consumer spending and the impact of various changes in it to serve the production, consumption, export and import decision-making,
5) to provide detailed indicators of the incomes of individuals and families by source
6) to provide the data required for creating a new index record of consumer prices beyond 2012
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Households

Scope

Notes
The survey covered the following topics:

- Household identification
- Household roster
- Migration
- Rations
- Housing
- Education
- Health
- Anthropometrics
- Job search and past employment
- Expenditures on non-food services and commodities
- Diary of food and recurring non-food commodities
- Jobs
- Wage jobs
- Agriculture, cattle breeding, fishing, fish farming and forest activities
- Household enterprises not in agriculture
- Income from property and transfers
- Durables goods
- Loans, credits and assistance
- Household shocks and coping strategies
- Time use
- Access to justice
- Life satisfaction
- Food consumption over the past 7 days
Topics
Topic Vocabulary
Health FAO
Food (production, crisis) FAO
Animal health FAO
Access to Finance FAO
Community Driven Development FAO
Aid effectiveness FAO

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Organization for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT) Ministry of Planning, Government of Iraq
Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO) Ministry of Planning, Government of Iraq
Producers
Name Role
The World Bank Group Technical assistance
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Government of Iraq GovIRQ Funded the study
Multi-country Trust Fund MPTF Funded the study
The World Bank Group WBG Funded the study

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The IHSES intends to provide estimators of comparable quality for each of Iraq's 118 gadahs (districts). This implies that the sample should be explicitly stratified by gadah, with a similar sample size allocated to each gadah, regardless of its size. A sample size of 216 households per gadah is proposed, equivalent to a total sample of 25,488 households for the country. Within each gadah, the sample will be selected in two stages, as follows:

1. First, using Census Enumeration Areas (EAs) as Primary Sampling Units (PSUs), select 24 EAs with Probability Proportional to Size (PPS), using the number of households as a Measure of Size (MoS), and with implicit stratification by urban/rural and the subsequent geographical codes (nahya, mahala, village, mukataa and census block).
2. Second, using households as secondary Sampling Units (SSUs), select a cluster of 9 households by systematic, equal probability sampling (SEPS) in each of the selected EAs.

The sample frames for both stages can be developed from the 2010 Census enumeration, with no updating of the household lists. In some of the smallest gadahs, the standard PPS procedure may result in the selection of fewer than 24 EAs, with some of the larger EAs selected more than once. In those cases, two or more clusters will be taken in the EA, as needed.
2,832 EAs were selected in total. 33 of them had less than the 9 households nominally required in the second stage and were merged ex-post with neighbouring EAs.
Weighting
Multiple weights have been provided. The variable "Weight" is the inverse of the selection probability, adjusted to match qadha-wise population". The variable "weight_s7_adult" is the weight for the analysis of adult anthropometrics. The variable "weight_s21" is the weight for the analysis of time-use data. And the variable "weight_s24" is the weight for the analysis of food consumption by recall.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2012-01 2013-02
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Email
LSMS Database Administrator [email protected]
Confidentiality
https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/terms-of-use
Access conditions
https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/terms-of-use
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download

Example:

Organization for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT), Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO). Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey 2012. Ref. IRQ_2012_IHSES_v02_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_IRQ_2012_HSES-W2_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Office of Chief Statistician OCS Food and Agriculture Organization Adoption of metadata for FAM
Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
DDI Document version
IRQ_2012_HSES-W2_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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