The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2025 is main funded by the Worldbank.
The Tonga Statistics Department is currently in the preparation phase for the Household Income and Expenditure Survey to be conducted in starting early 2025. As part of the preparation, 10 people has been recruited for the pre-test of the Questionnaire followed by the CAPI test. This is an essential phase of the preparation for all national surveys with the objectives to test the appropriateness of the content of the questionnaire, flow and the questionnaire translation. The findings from this test will assist in finalizing the questionnaire to ensure quality and accuracy of the data collection in both the Paper and Computer application. This activity is for 3 weeks, a back-to-back 2 weeks of pre-test and 1 week for CAPI testing.