A four-member team is monitoring the collection of data from enumerators on field for the Household Income and Expenditure Survey, HIES, 2024-2025, ensuring the questionnaires are correctly answered and adhere to the standards expected by the National Statistics Office.
Since the commencement of the survey field work in October last year, the team has been checking all the questionnaires sent in by the HIES enumerators within the country and approving them.
The team consists of Danny Asa, John Manakako, Thomas Gogomo and Elizabeth Tsara who are each assigned to the nine provinces and Honiara to monitor their data collection.
Danny looks after Honiara and Ren-bel Province while John looks after the Guadalcanal and Central Province.
Thomas monitors the teams of Western, Choiseul and Isabel while Ellizabeth looks after Malaita, Makira and Temotu Province.
They are responsible to carry out data compliance checks to make sure that the data collected complies with the National Statistics Office’s basic data best practices regarding consistency, data verification and valid processes, reporting and communicating results are in line with fieldwork plan.
The group also oversees and manages HIES data in close liaison with NSO Provincial coordinators and the field teams to ensure accuracy and timely reporting for the HIES data collection and processing.
They coordinate data collection from the NSO headquarter and HIES field teams in close liaison with the provincial coordinators and discuss concerns raised by enumerators on field.
Danny monitors the four Honiara HIES teams.
“We thoroughly check all the questionnaires after they send them in, if the EA ids and sampling ids are right or wrong and making sure the measuring units are correct.”
“If there is any inaccuracy, we reject the questionnaires and ask the enumerators to comment on the questions that we have issues with or adjust the question again when asking the respondent. Sometimes we see the prices for certain goods are very high, we ask them to confirm these answers again with the respondents.”
“If there are no issues with the questionnaires, we approve them for the Head quarter’s data.”
The HIES is now in its 18th week since commencing in October last year and is progressing according to schedule.
It is a 12-month survey under Component 1 of the Building Capacity in Statistics and Audit, CAPSA Project, a joint project between the Solomon Islands Government and the World Bank.
The Solomon Islands National Statistics Office is implementing the HIES on behalf of the government.
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