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    "id": 262908,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/262908/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I want to thank the Mover, Dr. Otichilo, for bringing this Motion to the Floor of the House. This is one Motion that the House should follow up, so that the Government implements its resolutions. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the basis of any socioeconomic survey on poverty alleviation is household income and expenditure trends. The parameters that include education, environment, aridity of the land, local and foreign investment, natural resources, land use system, level of literacy among others, are really very important when determining the poverty levels of any institution, be it a household or otherwise. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other very important thing that was not captured in the current system that is being used is the method that was used and process to quantify the date. In such an activity as poverty survey, sampling as a method of data collection is really inappropriate. If you want to include everybody in such a survey, you cannot have sample design or frame. Sampling as a process is not appropriate. Above all, when you do any survey, it is always good that the stakeholders are asked to verify the final product. If you do not have give the stakeholders the forum to give a feedback, it will really have negative repercussions on resource sharing. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in 2005 69 districts were used and then constituencies and not districts ranked. That in totality tells you that this system is not really correct. This is because you surveyed districts and then ranked constituencies. They should have just ranked districts. Even though the districts were not 284 as they are currently, I am sure that they were more than 69. So, I really do not understand the logic used by those who carried out the survey in deciding to run constituencies. There are 210 constituencies. We use districts to determine the poverty levels."
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