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The Household Integrated Economic Survey - HIES was started in 1963 and
continued to be conducted with some breaks. In 1990 the questionnaire was
revised in order to address the requirements of new system of National
Accounts. The surveys were conducted during 1990, 1992-93, 1993-94 and
1996-97 using the revised questionnaire. The HIES was merged with PIHS in
1998-99 and questionnaire was improved and was split into two modules in
order to obtain better quality of information separately from male and
female respondents by the male and female enumerators respectively.
The field activities of the current round of PSLM Survey – HIES Part were
started in
July/ August jointly with Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM)
– Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire (CWIQ) Part in order to study both
social as well as economic indicators related to the households. This report
provides important data on household income, consumption expenditure and
consumption pattern at national and provincial level with urban/rural
breakdown. The consumption quintiles are used as it seemed to be an
important and more realistic tool of data analysis. |
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