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Namibia Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2015-2016

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
NHIES 2015/2016
Provider 
Namibia Statistics Agency
Tabulations only
Geography 
Namibia (NAM)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
04/2015 - 03/2016
Series or system 
Namibia Household Income and Expenditure Survey
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Namibia Household Income and Expenditure Survey was conducted in order to collect data on the country's living conditions using individual and household questionnaires. A sample size of 10,368 households was used for the survey and 10,090 households were successfully interviewed. Data were collected on demographic characteristics, housing, service access, education, health, employment and food consumption.

Keywords 
Absenteeism, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Assets, Birth place, Child anthropometry, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, Coping behavior, Crops, Dairy products, Diarrhea, Diet, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Employment benefits, Family composition, Family size, Fertilizers, Fish, Fishing, Food expenditures, Fruits, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household heat, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Income, International migration, Internet, Land ownership, Languages, Legumes, Lighting, Literacy, Livestock, Loans, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Marital status, Mass media, Meat, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oral conditions, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Public social assistance, Refrigeration, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Skin diseases, Starchy vegetables, Taxes, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Transportation, Unemployment, Vegetables, Water supply, Whole grains
GHDx Entry last modified on: Apr 1, 2025