Household Budget Survey 1999
Lithuania, 1999
Identification
LTU_1999_HBS_v01_M
Household Budget Survey 1999
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Lithuania | LTU |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
Household Budget Survey has been conducted annually by Statistics Lithuania since 1996.
The main objectives of the survey are:
-to obtain weights for Consumer Price Index,
-to estimate household expenditure for National Accounts,
-to study the general structure of household incomes and expenditures,
-to study income and expenditure patterns of disadvantaged groups, including pensioner households, single parent households, etc.,
-to study income and expenditure disparities among socio-economic groups,
-to study consumer behavior among socio-economic groups,
-to study effects of policy changes, especially tax changes on income and expenditure.
The target population of Household Budget Survey is based on private households in Lithuania. Households are selected using the random sampling method from the Populations Register. Participation of the selected households in the survey takes one month. After one month other households replace them.
Data is collected through face-to-face interviews and expenditure diaries.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Households,
- Individuals.
Version
v01
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- composition of a household,
- household members' demographic characteristics,
- employment of household members,
- income,
- ownership of durable goods,
- expenditures on food, non-food items and services,
- household consumption,
- taxes, other liabilities and payments,
- farming,
- housing characteristics.
Coverage
National
Cities and settlements
The universe of the survey is private households in Lithuania. Persons living in the institutional households (elderly people nursing homes, imprisonment institutions, army, etc.) have been excluded from the survey.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Statistics Lithuania |
| Name |
|---|
| Statistics Lithuania |
Sampling
The following geographical stratification was used in the survey:
- largest cities (Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Šiauliai, Panevežys);
- other towns;
- rural areas.
Sample size in the each part is proportional to the population in each part. The annual sample of the HBS was divided into 12 non-overlapping subsamples equally distributed over the period of January to December.
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Largest cities. The sample size in each city is proportional to the number of inhabitants (persons aged 16+). Simple random sampling was employed in each of the 5 large cities. The Population Register was used to obtain the sample of persons aged 16 and older. Households selected according to the address of the selected person were surveyed. Unequal probability of selection of the households was eliminated by weighting.
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Other towns. The two-stage selection of households was used in smaller towns. In principle, Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) are towns. Towns (27) with over 10000 inhabitants (persons aged 16 and older) were divided into two or more PSUs formed on the basis of the street map. On the other hand, 11 towns with less than 1000 inhabitants were previously ascribed to neighboring towns.
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The two-stage selection of households was used in rural areas, too. In the first stage, PSUs were set using administrative territorial units "seniunija ", with the assumption that each of them should have no less than 300 and no more than 2,000 households. Thus, some "seniunijos" were divided into two or more PSUs, and some were merged to form one PSU.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 1999 |
Data Access
The use of the datasets must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name)
- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online)
Example:
Statistics Lithuania. Lithuania Household Budget Survey (HBS) 1999, Ref. LTU_1999_HBS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Statistics Lithuania | statistika@stat.gov.lt |
Metadata production
DDI_LTU_1999_HBS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Julia Dukhno | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Review of study documentation |
2012-05-07
Metadata version
Version 01