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CNMI receives grant for household survey
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Posted on Dec 07 2004
The administration has received a grant from the Office of Insular Affairs for its 2005 CNMI Household Income and Expenditures Survey.
The survey, conducted by the Department of Commerce’s Central Statistics Division every five years, allows the CNMI government to gather and use consistent, reliable, efficient and cost-effective demographic, social, economic, housing and expenditures data as part of developing its Consumer Price Index and Gross Domestic Product.
“The last HIES was in 1998 and because of changes in the distribution and amount of purchasing in the CNMI, the government feels that it needs to do a new HIES, rather than use the results of the old one, in assessing the current acceptability of the CIP…” Statistics’ acting director Justin Andrew explained.
The results of the survey will provide reliable data on income, expenditures, households, the current labor force and other statistics useful to the government in its planning and assessment of the economy.
OIA director Nikolao Pula, in a letter to Gov. Juan N. Babauta approving the local government’s request for the technical assistance said: “…We support this survey as an important part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands statistics program and essential to the development of the gross island product and related income accounts…”
The survey is scheduled to begin in early March 2005 with the training of the tabulators and be completed by the end of next summer.
