After Years of Hard Work, Symposium on the Family Budget Survey Done [Archives:1999/43/Local News]

Under the slogan of “Using the data of the Family Budget Survey “to support the economic, social policies and participating in shaping the Second Five Years Plan (2001-2005) a success, a symposium was held to show the final outcomes of the Family Budget Survey for the year 1998 at the central Statistics Institution Apparatus. The Survey was financed and conducted in cooperation with the Japanese Government and in coordination with the World Bank’s office in Sana’a. It was conducted in four stages spread over a year. The workers engaged in implementing this survey ran into 255.
The Central Statistics Apparatus is determined to execute this plan for the year 1998, covering 15120 families from different governorates of Yemen, so as to make available a strong information base. Then, the data summary and the general estimation of the final results would be issued. Many tables have not so far been covered by the general estimation. They will be issued in accordance with the needs and requests of users of the data.
In order to meet the basic requirements for the data users, summaries of the important points pertaining to data regarding families, summary of the final outcome of the survey for the year 1998 were issued. Then, a symposium was held to compile the data compiled. The symposium was attended by a good number of specialists in statistics, economy, social development fields in the Yemeni Universities and research centers and different governmental institutions.
The results will also substantially help researchers, policy as well as decision makers and specialists to be informed about the most important details relating to the income of the Yemeni families and the conditions of the family in towns and villages. Such data and information compiled can also be used to prepare plans and future polices to improve the economic conditions of the families and support their income. Moreover, they could be used in the economic social policies that will help prepare the plan for the next five years (2001-2005).
Hassan Al-Sagheer
Statistic Media in the Central Statistics Apparatus

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