Household Budget Survey 2008
Russian Federation, 2008
Identification
RUS_2008_HBS_v02_M
Household Budget Survey 2008
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Russian Federation | RUS |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
Households Budget Survey is a part of the general plan of statistical activity in Russia. It is conducted on regular basis by all State statistical authorities in all subdivisions of the Russian Federation. ROSSTAT administers the survey, prepares its design and methodology. The results of the survey are published at the level of Rosstat and at the level of territorial bodies of ROSSTAT.
The sample survey on households budgets is the method of state statistical observation on living standards of population. The frame of the study and dissemination of budget survey data is defined by the following goals: to collect data on distribution of population by levels of prosperity; to get weighting indicators to calculate a consumer price index; to get data to compile accounts of household sector for the system of national accounts.
The survey on households budgets is conducted in all regions of the Russian Federation and covers 47800 households. The returns of the survey are compiled quarterly and for a year as a whole.
Starting from 1997, two-stage random sampling built up by territorial principle has been used to form sample frame of households. A final unit of the selection is a household. Collective households consisting of persons who are for a long period in hospitals, in special retirement houses for the elders, boarding schools and other institutional organizations are not included in the sample survey. The units of this survey are households and their members.
Data is collected through face-to-face interviews and households expenditure diaries.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Households,
- Individuals.
Version
v02
2008
Scope
The scope of Household Budget Survey includes:
- age-sex composition of the household, marriage status and kinship of its members;
- household's head employment and employment of other household members;
- households' other expenditures and consumption;
- direct taxes and other payments not accounted as consumer expenditures, money transfers;
- participation of household members in social security and insurance programs, which provide illness or childbirth payments; old age pensions, disability pensions; survivors allowance and similar allowances;
- total income of household (after deduction for social insurance, but before personal income tax deduction); changes in household's savings and debts within the sample period and other details which allow the income amount to be evaluated by computational methods;
- foods consumption, including foods produced in the household and obtained as transfers in kind;
- household's production activities (revenue obtained from sales of goods and rendering of services produced by private enterprise, volumes of agricultural raw materials processing, stocks of produced foods);
- family status and its lifestyle, which is of special interest for households living standards and living conditions analysis.
Coverage
Survey covers the entire territory of the Russian Federation, with the exception of the Chechen Republic.
All private households and population in them living on the territory of the Russian Federation, with the exception of the Chechen Republic.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation | ROSSTAT |
| Name |
|---|
| Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation |
Sampling
Two-stage probability sampling with stratification and random sampling on each stage was considered the most adequate for household sample totality. The base for sampling is:
On the first stage: aggregation of folders (enumeration districts) formed on the base of 1994 Microcensus dataset. Aggregation of folders is composed on regional level, for urban and rural population separately. Each folder (enumeration district) has a number assigned, where its belonging to certain administrative region (by region code) and locality (by locality code) is indicated.
On the second stage: totality of microcensus forms for a separate household within the enumeration district selected on the first stage.
Stratification is aimed at creating a representative household sample, reflecting territorial peculiarities of population distribution, its demographic and socio-economic structure.
During actual sampling for each subject of the Russian Federation were created tables, containing numbers of microcensus enumeration districts and microcensus forms included into the sampling. The selection of enumeration districts and forms was conducted on Federal level.
Four variants of selection were created within each enumeration district: the first is aimed at primary sampling per se; the second is aimed at replacing inaccessible households on this stage; third and fourth variants are aimed at replacing households withdrawed in the course of survey. The list of households addresses was created on regional level basing on information from the above mentioned tables.
Survey instrument
HBS program represents a set of the following kinds of questionnaires differing by data collection period:
Household Diary is designated to record household's daily expenditures by certain types of expenditures and consumption within two consequent weeks of a quarter. Households are keeping diaries in accordance with a special rotation scheme. The procedure of households data collection using two-week diary records is organized on a rotation basis within one sample area. For this purpose the household sample totality surveyed by each interviewer is divided into 12 strata. The interviewer compiles rotation groups by lot. Once the households have been divided into rotation groups, the interviewer enters households numbers into the household quarterly rotation scheme developed for these purposes. The rotation scheme is developed in such a way that each group is updated with 2 to 3 households weekly (depending on the sample area: urban or rural territory).
Household Register is designated to record household's expenditures on those days of the quarter when the household does not keep the Diary. Diary and Register is kept by the person administering all or part of total money, who is engaged in housekeeping most of all and is informed about other household's members expenditures, i.e. responsible person.
Questionnaire for Household Budget Survey (quarter)- contains questions focused on collecting information for three months of the quarter prior to data collection.
Questionnaire for Household Budget Survey (annual)- records information as at the end of forth quarter of the last (reporting) year. This information relates only to households surveyed within the fourth quarter.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 2008 | Quarterly |
| Name |
|---|
| Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation |
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:
Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation. Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2008, Ref. RUS_2008_HBS_v02_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 | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation | ROSSTAT | stat@gks.ru |
Metadata production
DDI_RUS_2008_HBS_v02_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Poverty-GP | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2017-02-14
Metadata version
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v02 (February 2017)
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new version of data was provided by ROSSTAT
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v01 (March 2011)