Mozambique: Family budget survey underway

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Mozambique: Family budget survey underway

3:40 CAT | 06 Jul 2020

File photo: Lusa

The Mozambican National Statistics Institute (INE) is clearing up doubts circulating on social networks and calling on the population to receive the Family Budget Survey teams, the second phase of which starts today.

“INE reassures the population and urges them to receive the survey teams so that they can carry out the data collection work for this survey which is extremely important for the country’s planning,” the body stressed.

“A video reporting the visit of individuals to homes circulates on social networks” which INE reports “is a continuation of the Family Budget Survey”, with the aim of “obtaining various indicators on the living conditions of households in Mozambique”, it announced.

After collecting data for lists, the second phase of contact begins today by the survey teams, usually composed of three people: “a guide (who is the head of the block), a driver and a surveyor”.

“All agents involved in this survey have been trained in biosafety by the National Institute of Health with the support of the cooperation partners, in the field of Covid-19 prevention,” he added.

The Mozambican INE also announced that surveys on the impacts of Covid-19 on families and companies are being carried out, with data being collected by telephone – with face-to-face contact only in companies.

Mozambique had, by Monday (July 6), an accumulated total of 1012 cases of infection by the new coronavirus, with eight deaths and 277 recovered.

Source: Lusa