The HIES provides a wealth of information about household expenditure and income, including so called ‘subsistence activities’ where households produce and consume their own food from the land and sea, provide household supplies like firewood and thatch and other items such as oils, handicrafts and clothing. This report provides the main HIES results, with much more analysis possible from the data than that contained here. There is a separate report containing the results of the poverty analysis of the HIES data. My sincere thanks goes to the United States Government through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the then Millennium Challenge Account, Vanuatu (MCA) for their funding assistance for this project and for providing the technical assistance throughout the survey.
I wish to acknowledge the important contributions of VNSO staff in the successful conduct of the HIES and the completion of this HIES, including Mr Harry Nalau his oversight of the survey and this report, the staff who produced the separate chapters in this report and conducted the field training. Sincere thanks are also extended to the provincial survey coordinators, supervisors and enumerators for working hard in the field collecting the required data.
But it is the members of the households who patiently completed the detailed HIES questionnaires with the survey enumerators and provided all of the necessary information required over the two week survey period who justifiably deserve the greatest vote of appreciation and thanks in the preparation of this report. |
2010 HIES Analysis Report |
2010 HEIS Preliminary Release |