1. 7 November, 2018 Nuku’alofa, Tonga
Improving Data Dissemination and Use in Pacific Island Countries: Microdata standardisation (harmonisation)
7 November, 2018
Nuku’alofa, Tonga

2. Component 2: Ex post microdata standardisation
Workshops on standardisation
Labour market; disability; education; consumption
Identify common household and person variables for thematic analysis
Training in microdata standardisation and analysis
Creation of census subsets
Harmonisation guidelines
Household record
Person record
Labour market
Income
Education
Consumption
Health
ICT, etc.

3. Why standardise? Documentation of variable construct
Facilitate comparative analysis (time and space)
Common coding
Indicator reporting
Improve ease of microdata use
National
Other users
Facilitate international reporting obligations
Derived variables are comparative
Quintiles
Multipliers
Total income
Total expenditure
Household composition
Imputer rents

4. Workshops Labour Children, women and disability Education Consumption
December 2018
Children, women and disability
First quarter 2019
Education
First half 2019
Consumption
Third quarter 2019
Guidelines
Fourth quarter 2019

5. Standardisation example: sub-regional food consumption database
12 PICT consumption database using HIES data
PNG, SLB, VUT, FSM, NRU, PLW, COK, NIU, WSM, TKL, TON, TUV
Facilitate analysis of critical national and regional issues
Demand forecasting
Food consumption
Caloric intake
Nutrient access
Food systems
THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE WITH MICRODATA

6. Thank you