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PREFACE III
ACKNOWLEDGMENT IV
LIST OF TABLES VII
LIST OF FIGURES VIII
KEY INDICATORS X
CHAPTER ONE- HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Household Expenditure Patterns 1
1.2.1 Changes in household expenditure patterns 2
1.3 Changes in household per capita expenditure 7
1.4 Ownership of consumer durable goods 11
CHAPTER TWO - POVERTY ANALYSIS
2.1 Introduction 13
2.2 Defining the Measure of Welfare for Poverty Analysis in 2009/2010 13
2.2.1 Adjusting for household size 16
2.2.2 Purchasing Power Parity 16
2.2.3 2005 ICP global results – Maldives 16
2.2.4 Adjusting for price differences 17
2.3 Expenditure - Poverty Indices 18
2.4 Poverty Dominance 19
2.4.1 Poverty Dominance for Republic, Male' and Atolls 19
2.4.2 Regional Analysis 21
2.5 Expenditure - Poverty Measures 22
2.5.1 Head Count Ratios 22
2.5.2 Poverty Gap Ratio 23
2.5.3 Headcount Ratio and Poverty Gap Ratio for Regions 24
2.6 Inequality 25
2.6.1 Share of the poorest quintiles 25
2.6.2 Average expenditures by quintiles 26
2.6.3 Lorenz Curve 27
2.6.4 Gini Coefficient 28
CHAPTER THREE – EMPLOYMENT
3.1 Introduction 29
3.2 Overall trends in the labour force 30
3.3 Employment 34
3.4 Unemployment 41
3.5 Not Economically Active population (NEA’s) 46
3.6 Returns to employment 49
CHAPTER FOUR - HOUSEHOLD INCOME
4.1 Introduction 55
4.2 Concepts 55
4.3 Total monthly household income by source 56
4.4 Total monthly household income by deciles and quintiles 60
4.5 Total monthly household income by monthly household income groups 62
4.6 Average monthly household income by source 64
4.7 Average household income by characteristics of main income earner of the household 65
4.8 Median household income 66
4.9 Per capita monthly income 66
4.10 Summary 71
CHAPTER FIVE - HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS AND WEALTH
5.1 Introduction 73
5.2 Household savings and dis-savings 73
5.3 Perceptions of households status and income changes 77
5.4 Comparison with HIES 2002/2003 80
CHAPTER SIX - SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND ADMINISTRATION
6.1 Introduction 83
6.2 Main Aim and Purpose 83
6.2.1 Objective of the survey 83
6.2.2 Importance and use of HIES results 83
6.3 Methodology 83
6.3.1 Sample Design 83
6.3.2 Enumeration and analytical problems 85
6.4 Data Entry, Editing and Processing 85
6.4.1 Field Operation 86
6.4.2 Coding 87
6.4.3 Survey Budget and Expenditure 87
6.5 Limitations 88
6.6 Sampling Errors 88
6.6.1 Results on sampling errors for selected attributes in HIES 2009/10 88
APPENDIX ONE- SAMPLE DESIGN 91
APPENDIX TWO - THE MEASUREMENT OF VULNERABILITY AND POVERTY 97
APPENDIX THREE - CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS 103
APPENDIX FOUR - QUESTIONNAIRES ENGLISH 109
APPENDIX FIVE - QUESTIONNAIRES DHIVEHI 143
APPENDIX SIX - SURVEY ADMINISTRATION 175
APPENDIX SEVEN - STATISTICAL TABLES 177
APPENDIX EIGHT - ATOLLS AND ISLANDS BY REGIONS 269
APPENDIX NINE - CLASSIFICATIONS 275 |
