Access to up-to-date socio-economic data is a widespread challenge in Pacific Island Countries. To increase data availability and promote evidence-based policymaking, the Pacific Observatory provides innovative solutions and data sources to complement existing survey data and analysis. One of these data sources is a series of High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS), which began in 2020 as a way to monitor the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and since 2023 has grown into a series of continuous surveys for socio-economic monitoring. See https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/pacificislands/brief/the-pacific-observatory for further details.
In Fiji, monthly HFPS data collection commenced in February 2024 on topics including employment, income, food security, health, food prices, assets and well-being. Fieldwork took place in rounds roughly one month in length in a panel method, where each household was only recontacted at least thirty days after the previous interview. Each month has approximately 700 households in the sample and is representative of urban and rural areas and divisions. This dataset contains combined monthly survey data between February and October 2024. There is one date file for household level data with a unique household ID, and a separate file for individual level data within each household data, that can be matched to the household file using the household ID, and which also has a unique individual ID within the household data which can be used to track individuals over time within households
Cleaned, labelled and anonymized version of the master file.
- Collection start: 2024
- Collection end: 2024
