DOI OKs $119K grant for Commerce

Posted on Mar 29 2005

The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved a $119,000 grant to fund the Commonwealth’s new household expenditure survey.

In a March 11, 2005 letter, Office of Insular Affairs director Nikolau Pula said the initial amount of $75,000 has been provided “to enable you to begin enumeration as soon as possible.”

The remaining $44,000 would be made available later in the fiscal year “as funds become available and progress is made in the project.”

The grant would be given to the CNMI’s Department of Commerce, which is tasked to conduct the 2005 CNMI Household Income and Expenditures Survey.

The survey, which is done every five years, allows the CNMI government to gather and use “consistent, reliable, efficient and cost-effective demographic, social, economic, housing and expenditures data” as part of developing its Consumer Price Index and Gross Domestic Product.

The CNMI-wide survey, which begins this month with the training of tabulators, is expected to be completed by the end of summer this year.

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