Vanuatu High Frequency Phone Survey, Continuous Data Collection 2023

Access to up-to-date socio-economic data is a widespread challenge in Vanuatu 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 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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/pacificislands/brief/the-pacific-o… for further details.

For Vanuatu, data for December 2023 – January 2025 was collected with each month having approximately 1000 households in the sample and is representative of urban and rural areas but is not representative at the province level. This dataset contains combined monthly survey data for all months of the continuous HFPS in Vanuatu. There is one date file for household level data with a unique household ID. And a separate file for individual level data within each household data, that can be matched to the household file using the household ID, and which also has a unique individual ID within the household data which can be used to track individuals over time within households, where the data is panel data.

Cleaned, labelled and anonymized version of the master file.

* Collection start: 2024
* Collection end: 2025