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Household Budget Survey 2015

Albania, 2015
Reference ID
ALB_2015_HBS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Mar 29, 2019
Last modified
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ALB_2015_HBS_v01_M
    Title

    Household Budget Survey 2015
    Country
    Name Country code
    Albania ALB
    Study type

    Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
    Series Information

    The Household Budget Survey was conducted for the first time in 1999-2000 and was representative only for urban areas, continuing later on in 2006-2007, 2008-2009 and since 2014 is continuously. From 2006-2007 the survey is spread in the whole Albanian territory including urban and rural areas and also representative in prefecture level.
    The Household Budget Survey in 2015 was conducted by INSTAT throughout the whole year, with a sample of 9,024 households.
    Abstract

    The Household Budget Survey is a statistical survey which is carried out at the household level and gives an overview of the socio-economic situation of the Albanian households. The results of this survey are also used to update the Consumer Price Index and Final Consumption calculation households as an important aggregate of GDP by the expenditure method.
    During the period of January 2015- December 2015, INSTAT conducted the Household Budget Survey (HBS) on a sample size of 7,335 private households, which ensures the description of consumption expenditures of the households, that were usual residents in Albania during that year.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis
    • Household
    • Individuals
    • Consumption expenditure items/services

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01
    Version Date

    2015

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the study includes:

    • Household Demographic Charactertics;
    • Labor;
    • Data on Dwelling;
    • Diary of Purchases;
    • Self-consumption.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The sample selection follows a two-step procedure:

    • The first step units (PSUs) are the Census homogeneous areas3, with a proportional probability to the size of the Census area.
    • In the second step, within each selected area in the first step, is selected by the method of systematic selection with equal probability a fixed number of 12 households. The selection in both steps is done in a random way by providing a representation also at the prefecture level. The total households sample was divided into 4 sub-samples of three months which were geographically spread homogeneously throughout the year, to reflect the seasonal changes. Consequently, each month were interviewed about 752 households spread evenly in all selected areas so to ensure representativeness for each area each month of the year.
    Response Rate

    The household's response rate, calculated as the ratio of the number of interviewed households with the number of selected households, expressed as a percentage is 81.3 percent.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2015 2015
    Data Collection Notes

    Data collection was based in two different ways of collection:

    • Filling a dairy from the households for a period of 14 days, where are recorded expenditures for purchasing products/services of consumption and when it was necessary filling a daily self-consumption dairy for 14 days, where are recorded only the products produced and consumed by the household itself during the same period, which values are estimated with the price that would be paid in the nearest shop/market.

    • Direct interview from the interviewer with a questionnaire where are included different questions about big expenditures and with a rare frequency, grouped and sorted according to specific topics. In the same questionnaire are included questions about socio-demographic data of household composition that will help in the analysis of household budget survey by household type.

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:

    Institute of Statistics (INSTAT), Albania. Albania Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2015. Ref. ALB_2015_HBS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded [website/source] 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 URL
    Institute of Statistics botim-difuzion@instat.gov.al www.instat.gov.al

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ALB_2015_HBS_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Role
    World Bank, Development Economics Data Group Generation of DDI documentation
    Poverty - GP Generation of DDI documentation
    Date of Metadata Production

    2017-04-06

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (April 2017)
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