Integrated Household Survey 1996
Romania, 1996
Identification
ROU_1996_IHS_v01_M
Integrated Household Survey 1996
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Romania | ROU |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
Romania Integrated Household Survey is a multi-purpose nationally representative survey implemented by the Romanian National Institute of Statistics in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity, and designed with the technical assistance of the World Bank. The survey was first administered in April 1994, and continued since. In 2001, IHS was replaced with Romanian Household Budget Survey (HBS).
The survey aimed for an annual sample of 36,000 households: 12 repeated cross-sections of 3,000 households interviewed for one month during the year. Each month, responses were gathered from 2,600-2,800 households out of 3,000 selected households.
The households provide detailed information regarding demographics, assets, labor market activities, income, purchases and consumption for that month only. The information is collected using a household questionnaire (administered in three visits by trained interviewers), complemented by a diary. The diary is used to help the household keep track of cash flows: incomes, expenditures, and savings.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Individuals,
- Households.
Version
v01: Edited data, for internal use only.
Scope
- demographic characteristics of household members,
- activity, salaried activities,
- self-employment,
- income and expenditure,
- recipients of pensions, allowances and other social assistance benefits,
- information on housing unit,
- ownership of farm machinery and durables (capital assets),
- livestock,
- persons outside the household and household members eating in the household (weddings, baptisms, visits, events, etc.),
- eating out,
- agricultural foods balance sheet,
- non-food purchases,
- payment for services,
- income and other cash inflow - balance sheet,
- expenditure and other cash outflows - balance sheet,
- hard currency inflows and outflows in the reference month,
- hard currency savings,
- holidays, travel, pleasure trips,
- health.
Coverage
National coverage
Cities and settlements
The survey covers all persons with permanent residency in Romania, members of the selected households who are present, temporary absent or who have left for a longer period and who contribute totally or partially to the budget of the household (income and/or expenditure).
Institutionalized persons (old people's homes, disabled persons' asylums, homes for workers, sanatoriums, etc.) are not included in the survey.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Institute of Statistics | NIS |
| Name |
|---|
| National Institute of Statistics |
Sampling
The survey is organized over a period of 12 consecutive months, on a sample of 36,072 dwellings, distributed in monthly independent sub-samples of 3,006 dwellings. The sampling plan had two stages. In the first stage the "EMZOT master sample" was selected on the basis of the data recorded in the 1992 Census of the Population and Dwellings. EMZOT is a very large sample (about 250,000 dwellings), drawn with a view to serving as the sampling basis for further research through testing within the dwellings, during an inter-census period. It is a systematic sample of 501 geographical areas, called research centers, distributed in all the counties, in both urban and rural areas. These 501 research centers are assimilated to primary sampling units. EMZOT includes 259 research centers in urban areas and 242 research centers in rural areas. The representativeness of the localities' network was ensured using the main characteristics of the dwellings and households: average number of households in a dwelling, average number of persons per household, occupational status of the household head.
In the second stage dwellings were selected from each research center. Individual dwellings were not selected directly. Groups of three dwellings were selected according to a random selection algorithm. These groups are called clusters and they are assimilated to secondary selection units. The algorithm of random selection was based on calculation of selection intervals and a random start for each research center. From each research center six dwellings were included each month in the two sample clusters. For the sample size in the second stage (36,072 dwellings) it was considered to obtain estimates for the main characteristics of the survey which could be affected by errors within a limit of 3% and guaranteed with a probability of 97%.
The weighting process comprised of the following three steps:
- calculation of the basic weights,
- non-response adjustment,
- final adjustment of the sample population and calculation of the extension coefficients.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 1996 |
| Name |
|---|
| National Institute of Statistics |
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:
National Institute of Statistics. Romania Integrated Household Survey (IHS) 1996, Ref. ROU_1996_IHS_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 | |
|---|---|
| National Institute of Statistics | romstat@insse.ro |
Metadata production
DDI_ROU_1996_IHS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2012-04-17
Metadata version
Version 01