Household Budget Survey 2011
Croatia, 2011
Identification
HRV_2011_HBS_v01_M
Household Budget Survey 2011
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Croatia | HRV |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
The Household Budget Survey is carried out by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics along with participation by its regional units in counties and the Zagreb City administration bodies competent for official statistics. Survey is carried out in a scope of Social Statistics, in competence of Household Expenditure and Income Statistics.
Since 1998, the Central Bureau of Statistics, in co-operation with county offices competent for official statistics, has carried out the Household Budget Survey based on the representative sample. The Survey is in line with the EU methodological recommendations and international standards and classifications.
The objective of the Household Budget Survey is to obtain data on the level and structure of household consumption expenditures. Data obtained from the Survey is used for updating and constructing of weights for national consumer price index. Furthermore, the data on the structure of household consumption expenditure is used for the needs of national accounts, i.e. for calculating of final household consumption, for calculating of imputed housing rents and for estimating figures on grey economy.
As the Household Budget Survey provides a number of information for monitoring economic and social conditions of life in households, the range of data users is very wide. Survey data are used for analyses and studies on living standards in population, measuring poverty, analyses of consumer habits and so on. Besides data on household expenditure, the Survey also collects other important data such as demographic data on household members, data on income and earnings by household members, data on housing characteristics and conditions, and so on.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Version
Version 01
2011
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- Information on the dwelling and housing;
- Demographic Characteristics;
- Characteristics of the Primary Job;
- Income;
- Durable goods;
- Expenses for Personal Consumption;
- Health;
- Education;
- Food Consumption.
Coverage
Croatia
Cities and settlements
All household members. Exclusions: people who live in collective households or students in dormitories.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Croatian Bureau of Statistics |
Sampling
Sample design for the Household Budget Sample is a stratified two-stage sample and is related to the sample desing of the Labour Force Survey. The sample units selected in the first stage are segments. Segments are territorial units formed by grouping neighbouring enumeration areas, selected in a systematic way with a probability proportional to the segment size. The segment size is measured by the number of housing units in a given segment.
In the annual sample for the Survey from around 4000 to 4500 housing units are selected. The annual sample is divided into 26 sub-samples, of which each refers to a bi-weekly period in a year (interval). Hence, every two weeks, part of the selected households are surveyed i.e. surveyed sub-sample covers size of around 150 to 170 housing units.
A household response rate of around 60-65% is consider as the acceptable minimum considering the complexity of the Survey and the burden of respondents.
Survey instrument
Instruments used for data collection in the Household Budget Survey are survey questionnaires. There are four questionnaires:
- Questionnaire for Household Members, HBS-1
- Questionnaire for Households, HBS-2
- Diary, HBS-3.1
- Questionnaire on Food, Beverages, Tobacco and Consumer Products, HBS-3.2
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 2011 |
Collection of data in the Household Budget Survey is carried out using a combination of two methods, interviewing (personal conversation with the respondent) and autonomous recording of data by the respondent.
The interview is carried out by the interviewer, and data on demographic characteristics and socio-economic characteristics of household members, level and structure of income, level and structure of expenditure by purpose and data on housing conditions are collected. Data on expenditure for food, beverages and tobacco is recorded in a diary maintained by the household for 14 days.
The collection of data is organised by regional units of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics in counties and the Zagreb City administrative body competent for official statistics. The direct participants in implementation of the Household Budget Survey in the field are the controllers and interviewers.
Data processing
Based on the defined deadlines, the collected survey data from regional units is submitted to the Statistics Department at the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, which is responsible for further actions relating to data processing procedure.
Data processing includes data entry, data checking, weighting, tabulating, analysis of results and final preparation of data for publishing. Data entry and checking is performed using the Blaise software program while data weighting and tabulation is done using the SAS software (Statistical Analysis System).
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:
Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Croatia Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2011, Ref. HRV_2011_HBS_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 | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian Bureau of Statistics | CBS | stat.info@dzs.hr |