Tanzania Household Budget Survey
Start Date:
May 2000
End Date:
September 2002
Country:
Tanzania
Client:
National Bureau of Statistics, Government of Tanzania
Funder:
DFID
Project Information
OPM provided technical support to the National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania, for the 2000/01 Household Budget Survey. Assistance was provided in sampling, data processing and analysis. OPM assisted the NBS to analyse trends in income poverty and key social sector indicators during the 1990s by comparison of the 2000/01 and 1991/92 HBS.
Working with the national poverty monitoring system, a new national poverty line was developed. NBS analysts received training in the use of SPSS and in poverty analysis, together with hands-on support during the analysis.
OPM also assisted in the dissemination of the findings, supporting the production of a popular version of the main report, web-based versions of the reports and media relations. OPM also used the data to identify poverty proxies - other variables that can be used to predict household income or poverty status - to inform the design of the 2002 Housing and Population Census with a view to using the Census data to develop small-scale poverty maps.