Household Budget Survey 2013
Greece, 2013
Identification
GRC_2013_HBS_v01_M
Household Budget Survey 2013
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Greece | GRC |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
The Household Budget Survey - HBS is carried out annually, upon the Decision of the President of the Hellenic Statistical Authority, with a view to collecting data on households’ composition, members’ employment status, and living conditions, while, mainly, focusing on their members’ expenditure on goods and services as well as on their income. The HBS was conducted first time during the years 1957 – 1958 and at five-year intervals thereafter; while from 2008 it is conducted on an annual basis.
The Household Budget Survey (HBS) is a national survey collecting information from a representative sample of households, on households’ composition, members’ employment status, living conditions and, mainly, focusing on their members’ expenditure on goods and services as well as on their income. The expenditure information collected from households is very detailed. That is, information is not collected on the basis of total expenditure categories like "food", ‘'clothing - footwear', "health ", etc., but separately for each expenditure, for example, white bread, fresh whole milk, fresh beef etc, footwear for men, footwear for women etc., services of medical analysis laboratories, pharmaceutical products etc.
The main purpose of the HBS is to determine in detail the household expenditure pattern in order to revise the Consumer Price Index. Moreover, the HBS is the most appropriate source in order to:
- Complete the available statistical data for the estimation of the total private consumption;
- Study the households expenditures and their structure in relation to their income and other economic, social and demographic characteristics;
- Analyze the changes in the living conditions of the households in comparison with the previous surveys;
- Study the relationship between households purchases and receipts in kind;
- Study low income limits in the different socio-economic categories and population groups;
- Study the changes in the nutritional habits of the households.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Households,
- Individuals.
Version
v01
2013
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- household composition;
- members employment status;
- living conditions;
- members expenditure on goods and services;
- household members income.
Coverage
National coverage
Cities and settlements
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) |
| General Directorate of Statistical Surveys |
| Population Statistics and Labour Market Statistics |
Sampling
The HBS survey is based on a two-stage stratified sampling of households from a frame of sampling which has been created on the basis of the results of the 2011 population census as regards the three first semesters of 2013, while, as regards the fourth semester, the sampling frame was updated based on the results of the 2011 population census. The first level of stratification is the geographical stratification based on the division of the total country area into thirteen (13) standard administrative regions corresponding to the European NUTS 2 level. The two major city agglomerations of Greater Athens Area and Greater Thessalonica Area constitute two separate major geographical strata. The second level of stratification entails grouping municipalities and communes within each NUTS 2 Region by degree of urbanization. i.e. according to their population size. The scaling of urbanization was finally designed in four groups:
= 30000 inhabitants
5000 - 29999 inhabitants
1000 - 4999 inhabitants
0 - 999 inhabitants
The former Greater Athens Area was divided into 31 household strata of about equal size on the basis of the social and economic characteristics of the Municipalities / Municipal Units where the households belong. Similarly, the former Greater Thessaloniki Area was divided into 9 equally sized household strata. The two Major City Agglomerations account for 40% of total population. The sampling covers completely the reference population. The sampling units are the households, while the units of analysis are the households and their members. The survey is conducted on a representative random sample of all private households of the Country, which have members aged between 16-74 years old, irrespective of their size or socioeconomic characteristics. The survey does not cover the institutional households of all types (hotels, hospitals, boarding houses, elderly homes, prisons, rehabilitation centers, camps, etc.), the households with more than five lodgers and the households with foreigners serving in diplomatic missions.
In 2013, the survey was conducted on a final sample of 3,468 households (sampling fraction 0.08% of the estimated total number of households in the country).
The non-response rate before substitutions was 31.9% (1,106 households refused to co-operate, were absent or unable to communicate due to illness etc).
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 2013 |
The frequency of data collection is continual spread within the reference year.
| Name |
|---|
| Greece Agency of Statistics |
The method of data collection is the Paper-Assisted Personal Interview (PAPI).
Depositor information
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Poverty - GP | World Bank Group |
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:
Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Greece Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2013, Ref. GRC_2013_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 | |
|---|---|---|
| ECA Team for Statistical Development | World Bank | ecatsd@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_GRC_2013_HBS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Poverty - GP | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2016-04-26
Metadata version
Version 01 (April 2016)