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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
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 29, 2011
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
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  • Study Description
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • 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 Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]

Access policy

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

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_WB_BLZ_2008_HES_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Role
World Bank, Development Economics Data Group DECDG Generation of DDI documentation
Date of Metadata Production
2011-06-27
DDI Document version
Version 1.0: (June 2011) Variable level metadata is not yet done.
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