TEAM One members of Guadalcanal’s 2024-2025 Household Income and Expenditure Survey, HIES, have completed all their enumeration Areas within Malango ward and will soon move on to Vulolo, Ward 19.
This week the team is completing their questionnaires, synching them and waiting for checks and rejects from the National Statistics Headquarter.
Their last Enumeration Area was at the Guadalcanal Beach Resort, in a community known as the Fijian village.
As they prepare to move further inland, team leader Steven Labu highlighted some of the challenges the team has been facing since the start of the survey in October last year.
These included financial resources, the weather, and the large number of household members at some particular residential homes.
Focusing on the Fijian village, Mr Labu said there was a household with thirty-three people and another with forty-two people.
“The household with more than forty-people belongs to an Honorable Member of Parliament and the people were there to seek his assistance, so I am not surprised.
“I assigned an enumerator to that household and I took the other one.”
The team is looking forward to moving on to Vulolo Ward and anticipates new challenges there.
Despite this, they are prepared and committed to completing the survey.
The HIES is now in its 20th week since commencing in October last year.
It is a 12-month survey under Component 1 of the Building Capacity in Statistics and Audit, CAPSA Project, a joint project between the Solomon Islands Government and the World Bank.
The Solomon Islands National Statistics Office is implementing it on behalf of the national government.
