Socio-economic Survey

Introduction
Meaning of Socio-Economic Survey

• Socio- Oxford Dictionary describes as “Relating to society”

• Society- “The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered
community.”
• Economic- “Relating to economics or the economy”
• Economics “The branch of knowledge concerned with the production,
consumption, and transfer of wealth”
• Survey- “ Look closely at or examine (someone or something)”
Socio-economic Survey is the examination of society, its structure
and economic status in order to benchmark its status to identify the
positive or negative effect after implementation of a project.
Why study Socioeconomic Survey?

• To understand how to identify the nature of society (its

history, geography)
• To understand how to identify the structure of society
(its infrastructures, accessibility)
• To understand how to measure the economic status of
the society (its production consumption and transfer of
resources)
How do we perform Socioeconomic Survey?

• First we collect and study Secondary Data.

• All the information published about our population

• Then we collect Primary Data.

• Data collected from field.
Desk Study phase

• A preliminary investigation and report into something

gathering currently available relevant
information
• Normally we study Secondary Data during our desk study
phase to formulate “Conceptual Framework”.
• It is an “Office Work” since the secondary data are
collected and studied in the desk of our office.
• Secondary data be “out of date”, i.e. data might be no
longer valid or relevant.
• Takes less time.
• Costs less money.
Literature Review and Conceptual Framework

• A literature review is a survey of academic sources on a specific topic.

• It provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing us to identify
relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research.
• A conceptual framework is a written or visual representation of an
expected relationship between variables.
• Variables are simply the characteristics or properties that you want to
study.
• The conceptual framework is generally developed based on a literature
review of existing studies and theories about the topic.
Baseline survey and Follow-up survey

• A baseline survey happens right before a project kicks off, and it helps the
researcher to gather information about the state of different variables in the
systematic investigation.
• It also helps the researcher to understand the status quo and identify priority
areas for the research.
• In some way, a baseline survey allows you to define where you are and where
you are going, in terms of the project.
• Simply put, it measures key conditions (indicators) before a project begins
against which change and progress can be assessed.
• Follow up survey includes evaluation study, impact study etc.
Field Study/ Survey/ Data collection phase

• Collecting relevant information from primary source from the

field.
• Normally we gather “Primary data” during our field study
phase.
• It is a “field work” since the primary data is collected directly
from field survey.
• Primary data is updated version of data.
• Takes more time.
• Costs more money
Some frequently used terms:

• Population:
• A population is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about.
• Sample:
• A sample is the subset group of population that you will collect data from. The
size of the sample is always less than the total size of the population.
• Parameter:
• Parameters are numbers that summarize data for an entire population. For each
study, identify both the parameter and the statistic in the study. (i.e. , )
• Statistics:
• Statistics are numbers that summarize data from a sample. (i.e . x̄ , S)
• For each study, we identify both the parameter and the statistic in the study.