mus-cso-cmphs-2008-v1
Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2008
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Mauritius | MUS |
Household Survey [hh]
Central Statistics Office of Mauritius. Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey, 2008 [dataset]. Version 1. Port Louis: CSO [producer], 2008. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/yvs2-9x61
The primary objective of the Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey is to provide a permanent platform for the collection of data to compile socio-economic indicators to keep track of development in the country.
Sample survey data
Households and individuals
Version 1: Edited data available in DataFirst's Secure Research Data Centre
2008
Mauritius' Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey collected the following data on households:
-Geography: District, regional stratum, PSU number, enumeration area
-Household Characteristics: Type of building, type of housing unit (one-household, multi-household housing unit), type of ownership of the housing unit, and number of rooms
-Characteristics of household members: Relationship to head, age, sex, marital status, and health status, education and training, employment status, working conditions, income and expenditure, plus further data on:
Women: Women's activities and responsibilities, task sharing within the household, and decision marking at household level
The elderly (aged 60 and older): Physical disability and dependence, leisure activities, economic resources and support
The survey had national coverage
The survey covers all private Mauritian households on the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues.
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Central Statistics Office | Government of Mauritius |
A stratified two-stage sampling design is used. At the first stage, Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) are selected with probability proportional to size and at the second stage, a fixed number of households is selected from each selected PSU. Prior to 2005, the first stage stratification factors were urban, semi urban and rural geographical locations. The second stage stratification criteria are community, household size and average monthly expenditure of the household. From 1999 to 2003, around 6,500 households were covered each year. In 2004, the sample was increased to 8,640 so that reliable quarterly estimates of labour force, employment and unemployment could be worked out. From 2005 the sample was further increased to 11,280. Furthermore, in order to measure quarterly changes, 50% of the households sampled in a quarter are now re-interviewed in the following quarter.
The CMPHS questionnaire includes a basic module common to all rounds with a core set of questions which are kept constant and cover (a) general characteristics of the population, and (b) labour force information; and (c) a third module covering new topics, which changes over time.
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2008 | 2008 |
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Central Statistics Office | Government of Mauritius |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Secure Research Data Centre access https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/services/secure-data-services
Central Statistics Office of Mauritius. Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey, 2008 [dataset]. Version 1. Port Louis: CSO [producer], 2008. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/yvs2-9x61
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DataFirst support | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | support.data1st.org |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
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