CSO surveying 29 Communities for April 23- May 06 cycle of National Survey.

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The Central Statistical Office (CSO) has been undertaking the?Household Budget Survey and Survey of Living Conditions?from?Sunday 12 February, 2023?to conclude in?January of 2024.

The Household Budget Survey/Survey of Living Conditions (HBS/SLC) is a nationally representative survey with coverage across all Cities, Boroughs and Regions in Trinidad and Tobago. A sample of?7200?randomly selected?households across the country will be part of the survey.

From April 09 - 22, 2023, the CSO's Field Staff will be in the areas below.

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The Household Budget Survey (HBS) is designed to collect very detailed information regarding the household budget as the name implies, that is, expenditure and income data of the household. The first Household Budget Survey was conducted by the Central Statistical Office in 1957. The most recent survey was carried out in 2008/2009.

This year, for the first time in Trinidad and Tobago, the Household Budget Survey will be combined with the Survey of Living Conditions (SLC) resulting in reduced cost and decreased respondent burden. The Survey of Living Conditions has been utilized as the main source of robust quantitative data to generate key poverty, inequality and vulnerability indicators and to evaluate living conditions at a point in time.

In 2023, the HBS/SLC is the first such exercise in Trinidad and Tobago in which both surveys are merged in order to yield better quality expenditure data, while also providing detailed information on health, education, labour and other characteristics of living conditions.

The public is asked to note that all field staff will be dressed in khaki-coloured T-shirts for identification purposes with the CSO and HBS/SLC logos. The field staff will also have CSO ID cards and tablets for interviewing households. Approximately 40 Field Enumerators, 14 Field Supervisors and 1 Zone Coordinator will comprise the team administering the survey.

The success of the survey and the quality of the resulting data is largely dependent on the cooperation of citizens who fall within the survey sample. Citizens are urged to cooperate with the CSO field staff, so that the correct information can be provided if their household is indeed selected. The Central Statistical Office respectfully requests your cooperation, time and patience, as they try to obtain crucial data which can be used to improve our country’s socio-economic policies and the nation’s future.

All information collected during these exercises will follow strict confidentiality protocols and will not be shared outside of the exercise. Citizens can contact the CSO at 624-7001 ext. 258 to verify field officers or if there are any queries or concerns.

Visit www.cso.gov.tt for more information.