Household Income and Expenditure Surveys

Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES)s provide information on people’s living conditions and income/expenditure patterns. Data from HIESs are used for rebasing a country’s consumer price index, in the preparation of national accounts and to analyse poverty and hardship in communities.

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Number of households engaged in activities in Vanuatu, Tuvalu, and Kiribati

 
 
 
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News & Publications

Civil registration and vital statistics systems in the Pacific, 2023

July 6, 2023
This compendium pulls together civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) country profiles for the Pacific Island region.

Tonga Food Security Profile 2023

May 6, 2023
This Food Security Profile is part of the series Hunger and Food Security (SDG 2.1) profiles that provide national snapshots for a range of SDG-oriented indicators.

Tonga 2021 HIES report

January 30, 2023
Tonga's fourth Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) undertaken by Tonga Statistics Department (TSD). The previous HIES took place in 2001, 2009 and 2015.

Rugby, household surveys, census and COVID-19

October 18, 2022
During the onset of COVID-19, the CSTS team of the Pacific Community (SPC) provided remote technical support to the National Statistics Offices of the Pacific region in their round robin of household surveys. Since March 2020, the CSTS team has supported the implementing 10 censuses and 7 HIES. 
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