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Household Expenditure Survey 2008-2009

Belize, 2008
Reference ID
BLZ_2008_HES_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)
Metadata
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Sep 29, 2011
Last modified
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    BLZ_2008_HES_v01_M
    Title

    Household Expenditure Survey 2008-2009
    Country
    Name Country code
    Belize BLZ
    Study type

    Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
    Abstract

    The 2008-2009 Household Expenditure Survey seeks to collect information on household’s spending patterns which have changed since the last survey conducted in 1991. The survey collects data on food and non-food expenditures, income, production and consumption.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis
    • Households
    • Individuals
    • Consumption expenditure items / services

    Scope

    Notes

    The 2008-2009 Belize Household Expenditure Survey covered the following topics:

    • Household Composition
    • General Housing Characteristics
    • Expenditures on Housing Accommodations (L12M)
      • Tenure
      • Renter
      • Owner
      • House under Construction
      • Sale of Real Estate
      • Repairs and Improvements
    • Fuel, Utilities and other Household operations
    • Furniture, Furnishings and Household Equipment
    • Clothing and Footwear
      • Ready Made Clothing
      • Tailoring and Dressmaking
      • Footwear
    • Expenditures on Personal and Selected Services
    • Entertainment, Recreation and Miscellaneous Expenditures
    • Transportation
      • Private Transportation
      • Public Transportation
    • Travel
      • Local Travel
      • Foreign Travel
    • Education
    • Health Care
      • Expenditures on Health Insurance
      • Expenditures not covered by health Insurance
      • Medicine and Medical Supplies
    • Life Insurance
    • Finance Charges and Inventory of Credit
    • Employment (for persons 14 and older)
    • Income
      • Income of Employees
      • Income of Employers and Self-Employed
      • Income of Unemployment, Retired Persons, Unpaid Family
      • Other Sources of Income
    • Savings, Investments, Loans and other expenses
    • Agricultural Production
      • Home Production Activities
      • Poultry, Eggs, Meat, and Fish
      • Fruits
      • Vegetables
      • Other Home Production
      • Inputs for Home Production)
    • Other Expenditures

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2008-08-01 2008-08-28

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:

    Statistical Institute of Belize. Belize Household Expenditure Survey 2008-2009. Ref. BLZ_2008_HES_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [website/source] on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    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

    Contacts
    Name Email URL
    Statistical Institute of Belize info@statisticsbelize.org.bz www.statisticsbelize.org.bz

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_WB_BLZ_2008_HES_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Role
    World Bank, Development Economics Data Group Generation of DDI documentation
    Date of Metadata Production

    2011-06-27

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1.0: (June 2011) Variable level metadata is not yet done.
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