The Solomon Islands National Statistics Office, SINSO, has concluded its training of enumerators for the Annual Economic Survey (AES)-2025 on Friday 24th October 2025 with the first field operation to commence on the first week of November.
Twenty-seven enumerators have been selected for the Enterprise Survey after completing the training.
World Bank Group Statistician and Economist Arthur Giesberts facilitated the program which focused on topics such as employment, revenues, expenditures, assets and labour market.
Principal Statistician Moffat Sanau said the program has equipped the enumerators well with the necessary skills and knowledge to go out into the field.
“It was a comprehensive one-week training and they will be using tablets. They have been well equipped and I believe they are ready to go out into the field.”
The AES aims to collect data on a sample of business activities across the country to estimate the overall economic performance of the private business sector. A sample of representative business houses, both (formal and informal) will be covered in this survey.
The information will be treated as the major data sources for Gross Domestic Product, GDP estimates, Supply Used Tables (SUT), Input and Output Table (IOT) and other economic indicators.
Seven Provinces except for Choiseul, Temotu and Ren-bel will be involved in the survey where provincial supervisors and assigned enumerators will reach out via phones and mobiles to selected business houses and enterprises for appointments to conduct face to face interviews.
The actual field operation will commence on the first week of November and is expected to conclude in the final week of December 2025.
SINSO is collaborating with the World Bank in the survey under the Statistical Law (Amendment Act 2007), which means all businesses and institutions/organizations are legally obliged to cooperate and provide the requested information as complete and accurate as possible to the SINSO-AES-2025 field officers conducting the survey.
The survey falls under Component 2 of the Building Capacity in Statistics and Audit, CAPSA Project, a partnership between the Solomon Islands Government and World Bank.
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