INEI starts field work of the 2026 National Household Survey at national level

The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) started the field work of the National Household Survey (ENAHO) at national level, collecting social, economic and demographic information of households, dwellings and persons that live in them. This survey is implemented from January to December and besides it allows to perform longitudinal studies over several years.

In this regard, the chief of the INEI, Gaspar Morán Flores, arrived to the city of Tacna to escort field personnel, composed by surveyors, supervisors and a departmental coordinator, who during the current year will visit 1,450 dwellings, distributed in urban (1,162) and rural (288) zones.

The highest authority of the INEI outstood the importance of the ENAHO, which is the official source in Peru to measure poverty, living, health, housing and education conditions that is performed since 1995, first as quarterly survey and then being permanent since 2003.

“We are in Tacna to verify the normal development of field work of the ENAHO, survey that allows to generate reliable and updated information about living conditions of the population, which definitely helps at the moment to make the monitoring and evaluation of the public policies in the country”, stated Morán Flores.

Regarding the work takes place in Tacna, the chief of the INEI explained that there is an identification protocol of the surveyors, through their identification card and a cover letter, that has a QR Code of the website https://m.inei.gob.pe/identificar_encuestadores/, where you can identify the surveyor, who arrives to you home and explain the objectives of his/her labor.

“Annual information of the ENAHO is published in May of each year, after an extensive review and evaluation in charge of the Advisory Commission, that gather since March to validate the quality of the information and the measurement methodology of the poverty indicators, assuring the comparability”, he referred.

As part of the survey, the field personnel perform the measurement of chlorine levels in the water that we consume in our households. In this stage, surveyor must take a direct water sample, asking the permission of the responsible of the household. With this procedure, he/she assures to have health indicators, related to safe drinking water for consumption.

Surveyors also ask for information related to household incomes and expenditure in foods, clothing, footwear, education, health, entertainment, services, among others, that will allow the country to have information of poverty levels and monetary vulnerability.

It is worth to mention, that the INEI permanently performs different surveys that allow to have updated statistical information about living conditions, employment, health and budgetary programs, which served to the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies. Among those are the Permanent Survey of National Employment (EPEN), the National Survey of Budgetary Programs (ENAPRES) and the Demographic Survey and Family Health Survey (ENDES), among others.