Uiwang City to Conduct Basic Household and Housing Survey from June 6-25

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Uiwang City will conduct the "2019 Basic Household and Housing Survey" from June 6 to 25.

The Basic Household and Housing Survey is a nationwide survey conducted every five years under the supervision of the Statistics Korea to identify basic information on households and housing, and to be used as baseline data for setting accurate survey areas and providing various sample frameworks for next year's Population and Housing Census and Census of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, as well as for establishing housing policies.

The survey targets all residences (including vacant houses) and households (approximately 58,310 households) in Uiwang City as of June 1. Sixteen survey enumerators will conduct on-site inspections of all residences (buildings), and some households will be surveyed through face-to-face interviews.

Basic items (address, survey classification, survey target eligibility, and type of residence) will be confirmed for all residences. For some surveyed households, characteristic items (vacant status, number of occupiable households, construction year, roof presence on building, total number of rooms, heating facilities, residential facilities, and agricultural/forestry/fishery household status) will be additionally surveyed. The survey will shift from the existing paper-based method to an electronic survey method using tablets.

A city official stated, "All matters related to statistical surveys are strictly protected by confidentiality under the Statistics Act. Information will not be used for any purpose other than statistical purposes. We request your active participation and cooperation when survey enumerators wearing identification badges visit to ensure accurate surveying can be conducted."