The Fiji Bureau of Statistics has begun its survey of collecting important information from households across Fiji.
Public Service Commission (PSC) permanent secretary Parmesh Chand said the 2013 Household Listing Exercise which started earlier this month will end this year on 31st December.
“We are therefore calling on members of the public to provide assistance and support to the Government Statistician Epeli Waqavonovono and his teams of data collectors, as household surveys are expensive and extremely challenging.
“We are also requesting public servants and their respective families to provide assistance in promoting this exercise as widely as possible and overall facilitate the provision of data collection.”
Mr Chand said that information collected from homes will be useful for disaster management planning, investment planning, students doing research, and assist in the planning of development projects.
He revealed that alongside this exercise will be the 2013-2014 Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES), which will be a year- longdata collection activity that begins on 1 April 2013.
“Amongst other uses, information collected from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey will result in the re-weighing of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the compilation of poverty measures.”
Mr Chand said the result of these two exercises will provide primary data on which important decisions will be based and as such their accuracy and completeness are vital to decisions taken on any aspect of Fiji’s social and economic development.
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