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Household Budget Survey 2009

Romania, 2009
Reference ID
ROU_2009_HBS_v02_M
Producer(s)
National Institute of Statistics
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Sep 05, 2014
Last modified
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ROU_2009_HBS_v02_M
    Title

    Household Budget Survey 2009
    Country
    Name Country code
    Romania ROU
    Study type

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

    Romanian Household Budget Survey (HBS) is a multi-purpose nationally representative survey implemented by the National Institute of Statistics. The survey was first administered in April 1994 as Integrated Household Survey (IHS), and continued since. In 2001, IHS was replaced with Romanian Household Budget Survey.

    The Household Budget Survey (HBS) is designed based on the European recommendations and standards. The HBS methodology differs from the one used in the Household Integrated Survey. The HBS is a continuous, quarterly survey. The sample consists of 9,360 permanent dwellings, distributed in independent monthly sub-samples of 3,120 permanent dwellings.

    The survey collects information on household composition, income, expenditure, consumption and other aspects of population living standards.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis
    • Households;
    • Individuals.

    Version

    Version Description
    • Version 02 (June 2014)
      Followind datasets were added:
      -coef_2009
      -cpi09-dec02
      -hh09
      -ind0809
      -sindex
      -spro
      -sre
      -sval
      -sve

    Scope

    Notes
    • 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

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage
    Geographic Unit

    Cities and settlements

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    National Institute of Statistics NIS
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    National Institute of Statistics

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    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.

    The Household Budget Survey that replaced Integrated Household Survey in 2001 collects consumption information at a greater level of detail, similar with the structure used in the European Union.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2009 2009
    Data Collectors
    Name
    National Institute of Statistics

    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:

    National Institute of Statistics. Romania Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2009, Ref. ROU_2009_HBS_v02_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 Email
    National Institute of Statistics romstat@insse.ro

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ROU_2009_HBS_v02_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2014-06-02

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    • Version 02 (June 2014)
      Followind datasets were added:
      -coef_2009
      -cpi09-dec02
      -hh09
      -ind0809
      -sindex
      -spro
      -sre
      -sval
      -sve

    • Version 01 (May 2013)
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