South Sudan - National Baseline Household Survey 2009, First round

Reference ID

SSD-NBS-NBHS-2009-v01

Year

2009

Country

South Sudan

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics - South Sudan

Sponsor(s)

African Development Bank - AfDB - Main donor
Statistics Norway - SN - Data Processing
United Nations Development Program - UNDP - Provission of Fund for Survey logistics and publication of the Poverty report

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Overview

Identification

Country

South Sudan

Title

National Baseline Household Survey 2009

Subtitle

First round

Study Type

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey

Series Information

The National Baseline Household Survey 2009 (NBHS) is the second national sample survey designed to provide information for all Sudan after the peace agreement in 2005. The Southern Sudan Commission for Census, Statistics and Evaluation (SSCCSE) was responsible for conducting the survey in all 10 states of Southern Sudan. The survey took place in March/April 2009. In December 2008 SSCCSE did a pilot in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State

The NBHS involved random sampling, 528 households were interviewed in every state.

Accurate, up-to-date, and relevant data from household surveys are essential for governments to make sound economic and social policy decisions. Thus, the Government of Southern Sudan need the data from the NBHS to measure and monitor poverty, employment and unemployment, school enrollment, nutritional status, housing conditions, and other dimensions of living standards. They need the data to determine whether food, drinking water, schools, agriculture, services, roads, electric power, and other basic services are reaching the poor and other disadvantaged. Additionally analysts need household survey data to model economic behavior and thus provide answers to such important policy issues as mentioned above.

This Survey is considered the First Round, other rounds will follow later after two or five years depending on what Ministry of Ministry Finance and Economic Planning will agreed up on.

ID Number

SSD-NBS-NBHS-2009-v01

Version

Version Description

v0.1: edited data, Final Versionfor Public use

Production Date

2010-02-16

Notes

This data set is the first edited version and is not anonymised. it is strictly for internal use at the SSCCSE until anonymisation methods are developed for it and final edits checks are done. In this Version some of the variables in the data were deleted. all variable coded f_c, f_d, f_h, f_i, f_J, f_K, f_l

Overview

Abstract

The primary purpose of the survey is to facilitate the estimation of poverty prevalence, and a study of the nature of poverty, in Southern Sudan. Briefly, analysis of the survey results should be able to tell us the proportion of Southern Sudan's population that lives below the poverty line, the spatial pattern of distribution of poverty across states and regions, and the manner in which poverty affects different aspects of the lives of poor people.

An additional purpose of the survey is to enable analysts to compute weights for the basket of commodities for each state so that a Consumer Price Index may be calculated for each state in the future. Thus far, CPI has only been calculated for five cities - Juba, Wau, Rumbek, Torit and Malakal. The CPI helps track price movements month-to-month and is useful for inflation targeting.

In addition to the above purposes, an important aspect for the use of the data is to enable other stake-holders in Southern Sudan including GoSS ministries, UN agencies, NGOs and researchers to carry out in-depth analysis of particular aspects of the data which are of interest to them. For example, we expect the survey to yield high-quality baseline information on labour force and agriculture to fill in these crucial data-gaps till full-fledged surveys can be held on these subjects.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Units of Analysis

Households and individuals

Scope

Notes

The National Baseline Household Survey is meant to measure Poverty incidences in Southern Sudan. The report from this survey shall be used to developed a Poverty Eradication Paper.

The analysis presented here as mentioned is based on the National Baseline Household Survey 2009 which was the first large-scale representative sample survey to be conducted after establishing a sampling frame following the 5th Sudan Population and Housing Census of 2008. The survey was conducted across the ten states of Southern Sudan in both urban and rural areas; and is representative of these domains. The survey design, methodology and the subsequent analysis were done in accordance with international best practice with a view to providing reliable and robust indicators to the all users of the information.

The National Baseline Household Survey questionnaire is lengthier and more complex than in the Census. To avoid respondent (and interviewer) fatigue and non-response, the questionnaire was design to administered household in two visits each administering half of the questionnaire. These visits are usually meant to be on successive days that is say reference of three days.

The questionnaire consists of several modules like Education, Labor force, Anthropometry, Immunization, Housing, Livelihood and Assets, Household health, Economic Transfers, Credit and Shocks, Consumption and Agriculture.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
economic conditions and indicators [1.2]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

Keywords

Poverty, Millenimum Indicators

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The National Baseline Household Survey (NBHS) 2009 is a National Coverage, the sample covers the Ten States of Southern Sudan. the Data allowed comparison across Regions, States and a Urban / Rural split. In all the Ten States, all Counties were covered in the sample which give a complete representation of the population of Southern Sudan. replacements were done for those EAs That were under insecurity like the case in Jonglei and Western Equatoria State. One EA was replaced in Central Equatoria State was replace due demolition.

Geographic Unit

Households and individuals

Universe

The Survy covered selected Households in the sampled EAs. all household members presented in the households during the survey were listed in the Household roster. information on Education, health, work, economic tranfer, credit and shocks and Consumption were collected from households as well as each member of the household. however, nomads and homeless were not covered in the survey.

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
National Bureau of Statistics	South Sudan

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
Statistics Norway	Government of Norway	Technical Assistance in Questionnaires Design, Scanning and Data processing
United Nations Infant and Children Education Funds	United Nations	Technical Assistance in Anthropometric Training
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	United Nations	Technical Assistance in Food Security Data Analysis
United Nations Development Programs	United Nations	Technical Assistance in Poverty Report Publication

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
African Development Bank	AfDB	Main donor
Statistics Norway	SN	Data Processing
United Nations Development Program	UNDP	Provission of Fund for Survey logistics and publication of the Poverty report

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
African Development Bank		Main donor
Statistics Norway	Government of Norway	Questionnaire Design and Data Processing
United Nations Development Programs	United Nations	Provision of Fund for Survey logistics and publication of the Poverty report
United Nations Infant and Children Education Funds	United Nations	Training of Anthropometric and Provision of Anthropometric Equipments
Directory of Nurition	Ministry of Health	Provided Anthropometrist
Government of Southern Sudan		Implemented the Survey

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
National Bureau of Statistics	NBS	South Sudan	Documentation of the Study

Date of Metadata Production

2010-10-05

DDI Document Version

Version 1.0 (october 2010). This is version 1 of the DDI for the National Baseline Household Survey 2009

DDI Document ID

SSD-NBS-NBHS-2009-v02