Multipurpose Household Survey in Gwalior

“Vimarsh undertook this project with the following objectives :
• Improve revenue collection through ascertaining un-assessed and under assessed properties and the extent of unauthorized use of municipal services (e.g. water and sewerage connections) in the city of Gwalior.
• Improve service planning and targeting though provision of accurate socioeconomic, poverty and service data, particularly within slums, which will enable prioritization of investment.
• Provide a baseline for performance measurement.
• Allow distributional analysis of service levels, revenue generation and social composition, particularly identifying the location of poor and socially excluded communities (distributional analysis could be further enhanced through GIS technology).

The MPHS was carried out through a rolling phased programme consisting of four components, to be implemented concurrently by the team :
• Revenue survey: all taxable properties;
• Slum-based socio-economic household survey: commencing in priority slums where MPUSP and other programmes (ADB, UN-Habitat, and JNNURM) may be active and where household, socio-economic and service-level data is most immediately needed.
• Survey of slum service levels: all slums, commencing in the same priority slums.
• Socio-economic household survey for a representative sample of two per cent of all non-slum households (estimated at approximately 3,000 households in Gwalior). Following the Stratified sampling technique in non-slum areas.”