Tonga High Frequency Phone Survey, Continuous Data Collection 2023

Access to up-to-date socio-economic data is a widespread challenge in Tonga and other 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 for further details.
For Tonga, after two rounds of data collection from in 2022, monthly HFPS data collection commenced in April 2023 and continued until November 2024 (but with some gaps in the months of collection). The survey collected socio-economic data on topics including employment, income, food security, health, food prices, assets and well-being. Each month of collection has approximately 415 households in the sample and is representative of urban and rural areas. This dataset contains combined monthly survey data for all months of the continuous HFPS in Tonga.

Cleaned, labelled and anonymized version of the master file provided by the World Bank.

* Collection start: 2023
* Collection end: 2024