Papua New Guinea Public Expenditure and Service Delivery Survey in Health 2002

Date modified: 01 April 2019

Economy of Papua New Guinea had been in a state of recession since the mid-1990s. The fiscal situation had been compromised by large deficits. Pertinent questions about how effectively social spending was translating into the actual delivery of services had been raised.

The Public Expenditure and Service Delivery Survey (PESD) was conducted in February-August 2002 to study resources flow in education and health sectors. The PESD was launched by the World Bank as part of the Bank's analytical work on poverty in Papua New Guinea, in close cooperation with the country's government and the Australian Agency for International Development.

The main focus of the project was on expenditure in education. The health facility survey was not intended to be a full service delivery survey in order to keep the field operations and costs within manageable limits. It was added as a rider to the school survey. Health facilities that could be reached within 20 minutes from the sample schools were covered. Against a sample of 214 schools, the survey covered 117 health facilities. A short instrument collected information on how often the facilities were open, the presence of staff, and the availability of key medicines.

The PESD education sector survey covered 214 schools in 19 districts across 8 provinces (out of 20), with two provinces selected in each of the four main regions.

  • Collection start: 2002
  • Collection end: 2002
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Data and Resources

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Identifier PNG_2002_PESDH_v01_M
Issued 2019-04-01
Modified 2019-04-01
DCAT Type Text
Source https://microdata.pacificdata.org/index.php/catalog/133
Temporal Coverage From 2002-01-01
Temporal Coverage To 2002-12-31
Publisher Name
  • The Australian Agency for International Development
  • The Department of National Planning and Rural Development, Papua New Guinea
  • The National Department of Education, Papua New Guinea
  • The World Bank