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Thursday 31 Dec 2015 - 13:37 Makkah mean time-20-3-1437
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Maputo (IINA) – The data from the 2014-15 Household Survey, undertaken by Mozambique's National Statistics Institute (INE), and released here on Wednesday, show an across-the-board improvement in living standards since the previous survey, held in 2008-09, WallAfrica.com reported.
According to the INE, the most startling figure is the declining percentage of disposable income spent on food. In the 2002-03 survey, households reported that 48 percent of their expenditure went on food and non-alcoholic drinks. In 2008-09, when poverty, to the government's dismay, increased, food amounted to 51.4 percent of expenditure. But now that figure has fallen to 35.6 percent.
Poorer households inevitably spend a higher percentage of their income on food than the richer ones do. So this figure points towards a sharp decline in monetary poverty.
Pointing out that its task is merely to gather and publish the statistics, The INE said in the near future, the Ministry of Economy and Finance will issue a National Poverty Assessment, based on the Household Survey.
Transport as a percentage of expenditure rose from 6.3 percent in 2008/9 to 9.7 percent in 2014/15, while there was a remarkable rise in the amount spent on restaurants, hotels and cafes, increasing from 0.7 to 8.4 percent of expenditure. The amount spent on communications almost doubled, from 2.1 to 4.1 percent of total expenditure, doubtless attributed to the enormous expansion in the mobile telephone network.
The National Statistics Institute reported that the household survey is based on a sample of 11,628 households, in both urban and rural areas and covering all provinces, in 1,236 sampling areas. It took place over a year, and during this period each household was interviewed three times.
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