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Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2002

Mauritius, 2002
Reference ID
MUS_2002_CMPHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Office (CSO)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Apr 25, 2019
Last modified
Apr 25, 2019
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  • Study Description
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Data Appraisal
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
MUS_2002_CMPHS_v01_M
Title
Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2002
Country
Name Country code
Mauritius MUS
Study type
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
Series Information
The 2002 Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey (CMPHS) was the third CMPHS conducted by the Central Statistical Office, the first and the second CMPHS were conducted in 1999 and 2001 respectively.

Coverage
Each month, a sample of 525 households was surveyed. The selection of these households was done in such a way as to represent all private non institutional households in all urban, semi urban and rural areas. Thus, a total of 6,300 households (6,075 in the Island of Mauritius and 225 in the Island of Rodrigues) was covered during the period January to December 2002.
Abstract
The Central Statistics Office conducted the third round of the Continuous Multi Purpose Household Survey (CMPHS) from January to December 2002. The primary objective of the CMPHS is to provide a permanent platform for the collection of information relevant to the computation of appropriate socio-economic indicators to keep track of development on the social front.

This issue of Economic and Social Indicators presents the main findings of the survey based on responses cumulated over the twelve survey months and covers the following:
(i) demographic, health and educational characteristics of all household members;
(ii) environment;
(iii) information technology;
(iv) sport and leisure activities; and
(v) household conditions, including expenditure and income.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Household
Person/ Individual

Scope

Notes
The 2002 Mauritius Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey covered the following topics:
- Identification: Geographical district, regional stratum, PSU number, enumeration area, household number, and interviewer information.
- Demographic and Health Characteristics of Household Members: Relationship to head, age, sex, marital status, and health problem/ suffer (hypertension, amputation, asthma, epilepsy, cancer, and diabetes).
- Educational Characteristics of Household Members: Preprimary, primary and secondary school attendance and level of education, and other educational qualification school attendance, qualification obtained, and type of study.
- Sport and Leisure: Whether household member did physical exercise, type of physical exercise and time spent in exercising.
- Environment: Dispose solid waste like plastic bags, empty soft drink bottles, and kitchen wastes, and environmental concerns in the neighborhood
- Housing conditions, income and expenditure: Ownership of a house and residential plot of land, household expenditure, income from work, income from property, and transfer income.
- Information technology: Own computer or intend to purchase a computer, awareness of loan facilities for purchase of a computer, availability of internet access, how much spent on use of internet, purpose of computer at home, and household members IT qualification.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Economic Development, Finance and Services and Corporate Affairs, Republic of Mauritius
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Government of Republic of Mauritius GovMUS Funded the study

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
At the first round of the survey in 1999, a master sample of 420 regions or primary sampling units (PSUs), 35 for each of the 12 survey months during a year, was selected and a complete listing of private households was made from each of these PSUs. At a second stage, 15 households were selected from each PSU for interviews. The listings made in 1999, were again used in 2001 and 2002 for selection of households.
Response Rate
Out of the 6,300 selected households, 518 (8%) could not be contacted. This is due to the fact that the households had moved since 1999, year during which listings were made. The noncontacts were therefore replaced by other households with similar characteristics.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2002-01 2002-12
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Central Statistics Office CSO Ministry of Economic Development, Productivity and Regional Development, Republic of Mauritius

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The 2002 Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey questionnaire consisted of:
1) Demographic and health characteristics of household members
2) Educational characteristics of household members
3) Sport and leisure
4) Environment
5) Information technology (IT)
6) Housing conditions, income and expenditure

Data Appraisal

Estimates of Sampling Error
Estimates worked out from household survey data are inevitably subject to sampling error since they are based on information collected from only a sample of households rather than from all households.

The Standard Error (S.E.) is a measure of the precision of estimates derived from samples and it can be used to set confidence limits to these estimates. Thus, the S.E. for average household income estimated at Rs13,360 from the sample, is Rs269 and its 95% confidence interval would be Rs13,360+(-)2(269), i.e. Rs.12,822 to Rs 13,898.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Central Statistics Office Ministry of Economic Development, Productivity and Regional Development, Republic of Mauritius cso@mail.gov.mu http://statsmauritius.gov.mu/English/Pages/default.aspx
World Bank Microdata Library microdata@worldbank.org
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download

Example:

Central Statistics Office (CSO), Mauritius. Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2002. Ref. MUS_2002_CMPHS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [source] on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_MUS_2002_CMPHS_v01_M_WB
Producers
Name Abbreviation Role
World Bank, Development Economics Data Group DECDG Ducumentation of the DDI
Date of Metadata Production
2013-10-08
DDI Document version
Version 01 (October 2013)
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