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Household Budget Survey 2009

Macedonia, FYR, 2009
Reference ID
MKD_2009_HBS_v01_M
Producer(s)
State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Jul 07, 2015
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  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    MKD_2009_HBS_v01_M

    Title

    Household Budget Survey 2009

    Country
    Name Country code
    Macedonia, FYR MKD
    Study type

    Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]

    Series Information

    The Macedonia Household Budget Survey (HBS) that State statistical office is carrying out is used for gathering data about income, expenditures and household consumption. However, with this survey there is gathered other more important data for living standard such as housing conditions, the way of heating of the dwelling, the level of supplies with durable goods, minimal financial assets needed for ends meet.

    Abstract

    The goal of the Household Budget Survey (HBS) is to gather data about the revenues, expenditures and consumption of the households. Except that, the Survey gathers data about certain important data of the living standards (housing conditions, heating of the apartment-house, supply with permanent consumption goods), as well as basic data about the demographic, economic and sociological characteristics of the households.

    The gathered data, using the relevant methods, give the opportunity to realize the level and structure of the personal consumption in the households in general and especially by certain socio-economic categories. The distribution of the households in socio-economic categories enables to realize the existing differences in the level and structure of the personal consumption of the households as a significant material component of the living standards of the population.

    Additionally, the data of the survey shall be used for drawing up the weights for calculation of the cost of living index, calculation of the personal consumption balance etc. The data of the survey shall also enable to calculate the poverty lines by household types which are bases for the cash benefits and social assistance.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Households and Individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01

    Version Date

    2009

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the survey includes:

    • general data about the household members;
    • amount of the funds used by purpose of consumption (procurement in cash or with loan and value of the in kind consumption);
    • quantity of personal consumption products consumed (procured quantities and quantities of own production);
    • home and housing conditions;
    • possession of permanent consumption goods.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The Household Budget Survey is implemented on the entire territory of the Republic of Macedonia.

    Geographic Unit

    Cities and Settlements

    Universe

    All household members

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The survey is conducted on sample of 5040 households on the whole territory of the country, which is about 1% of the total number of households in the country. The frame of the selection are all enumeration districts that contain above 20 households, from Census 2002. The sample is two-stage stratified. Primary sampling units are the enumeration districts and secondary sampling units are the adresses of households.

    For the needs of the sample stratification on two levels with the total 16 strata was made:

    • Eight geographical regions, NUTS 3;
    • Two contingents- urban and rural areas.

    In the sample were 210 enumeration districts. The allocation of the sample in the stratas for the first stage is proportionally to the number of households in the region, and in the second stage for each selected enumeration district each quarter 6 households were selected randomly with equal probability. Each quarter were interviewed 1260 households, or 5040 different households on annual level.

    Response Rate

    The non-response rate for HBS-2009 was 17.0% and the refusal rate was 9.8%

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2009 2009
    Data Collection Notes

    In the Survey, there are used two the survey methods: method of carry out of diaries and method of interview on the basis of questionnaire forms. In the Survey, data for incomes are collected for three months, while data for expenditures are collected for 15 days, during which each household make records for expenditures in the diary.

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name Affiliation
    Poverty - GP World Bank Group

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    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:
    State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonia Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2009 Ref. MKD_2009_HBS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] 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 Affiliation Email
    ECA Team for Statistical Development World Bank ecatsd@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_MKD_2009_HBS_v01_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group World Bank Generation of DDI documentation
    Poverty - GP World Bank Generation of DDI documentation
    Date of Metadata Production

    2015-01-14

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (January 2015)

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