Data collection for the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES)-2022 is going to be complete within December 31 this year, according to Project Director Mohiuddin Ahmed.

Ahmed informed Professor Shamsul Alam, the state minister for planning, in this regard when the latter went to see the data collection activities in Dhaka's Sabujbagh area yesterday.

He also informed that they will be able to publish the results of the survey within next April.

Alam said the current poverty situation in Bangladesh will become clear through the survey, which is necessary to take the right policy measures.

The last HIES was done in 2016 and the current survey, which started in January this year, is being conducted among 14,400 households.

The survey has been conducted on a regular basis since 1973-74.