According to the World Bank Listening to Tajikistan (L2T) survey, monetary welfare has slowly improved in 2016.
Average real (inflation adjusted) per capita income reportedly rose by 15.7 percent for May-August 2016 compared to the same period last year.
The results indicate that growth was driven by higher per capita wage income (18.1 percent), and by higher per capita income from agriculture and self-employment (5.3 percent).
A rough indicator of domestic employment included in the L2T survey did not reveal significant changes between 2015 and 2016 – the average share of household members actively working rose only slightly from 18.6 percent to 20 percent.
The results also indicate that in 2016, some non-monetary welfare trends have either slightly improved, or remain unchanged. On average between May-August 2016, about 5 percent fewer households reported reducing food expenditure to pay for other basic needs in comparison to the prior year, and nearly 8 percent fewer households reported reducing expenditure on healthcare to pay for other needs.
Life satisfaction has remained remarkably constant on average over the course of the L2T survey, and the share of households unable to pay for housing and for utilities has remained roughly steady at about 43 and 45 percent respectively.
Similarly, the share of households reporting any electricity disruptions in the past 10 days remained relatively stable at about 48 percent of households. However, the share of households reporting any water disruptions in the past 10 days increased slightly, from 20 to 23 percent between May-August 2016 over the same period the year before.
