Gambia, The - Integrated Household Survey 2010

The Integrated Household Survey (IHS) was carried out to study both social and economic status of households in the Gambia. The survey presented the final results of the income, expenditure, consumption and poverty analysis. The results correspond to the collection period that covered the four quarters in 2010.The Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBoS) had the major responsibility of conducting the survey. The objectives of the IHS are:1. To provide identification of policy target groups.2. To derive consumption patterns of households.3. To provide a mechanism whereby key poverty indicators can easily and regularly be produced in order to describe and monitor the well-being of different categories of households.4. To provide some key data on how the economic policies affect the availability and quality of social and economic services to households, both as producers and consumers of products.5. To collect data relating to such topics such as health, education, employment, environment, agriculture and governance.6. To identify individual items that should be included in the consumption basket.7. To provide data for poverty analysis and remittances studies.The data collection for the survey lasted for a period of one year and covered 4,800 randomly selected households on a Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) basis across Local Government Areas (LGAs). The IHS is scheduled to be conducted on regular intervals preferably every five years, with light poverty studies at less frequent intervals, in view of current developments taking place in The Gambia.

综合住户调查（Integrated Household Survey，IHS）旨在系统研究冈比亚境内住户的社会与经济状况。本次调查形成了收入、支出、消费及贫困分析的最终研究成果，相关成果对应2010年全年四个季度的数据采集周期。本次调查的主要执行方为冈比亚统计局（Gambia Bureau of Statistics，GBoS）。
IHS的调查目标如下：
1. 明确政策目标群体；
2. 剖析住户的消费结构与模式；
3. 构建便捷且可定期生成关键贫困指标的机制，用以描述并监测不同类别住户的福祉水平；
4. 提供核心数据，用于分析经济政策对作为产品生产者与消费者的住户所获社会及经济服务的可及性与质量的影响；
5. 采集健康、教育、就业、环境、农业及治理等多领域的相关数据；
6. 明确应纳入居民消费篮子的具体商品类目；
7. 为贫困分析及汇款研究提供数据支持。

本次调查的数据采集工作历时一年，在冈比亚各地方政府辖区（Local Government Areas，LGAs）内，按照规模与概率成正比（Probability Proportional to Size，PPS）的抽样方法，随机抽取了4800户住户参与调研。结合冈比亚当前的发展态势，IHS计划定期开展，优先以五年为一个周期，而简易贫困调查的开展间隔则相对更长。