CSO promises discretion in 2015 Living Conditions Monitory Survey

The Central Statistical Office (CSO) has reassured people in the country that the 2015 Living Conditions Monitory Survey report will not reveal poverty levels of individual households.

CSO Director John Kalumbi says the 2015 survey report which is an update of the survey conducted in 2010 is being conducted under the confines of the Census Act which does not allow the revealing of personal details of individual households.

Mr. Kalumbi states that the Survey report will only give estimated poverty from ward level to national level.

He says the good thing about the 2015 Living Conditions Monitory survey is that the CSO will for the first time use tablets to collect data with the view of shortening the period in which to produce results.

Mr. Kalumbi has disclosed that this means that by somewhere around June or July, the CSO will be in a position to give preliminary information from the survey.