Household Budget Survey 2008
Serbia, 2008
Identification
SRB_2008_HBS_v01_M
Household Budget Survey 2008
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Serbia | SRB |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has been conducting the Household Budget Survey since 2003 according to international standards and recommendations of Eurostat, International Labor Organization and Unites Nations to provide for international data comparability.
The survey collects data on cash expenses of households for food, clothes and footwear, rent, fuel and lightening, health care, education, traffic, hygiene, culture, etc. It also gathers information on household income, dwelling conditions, as well as data on the level of supply with durable consumer goods.
The Household Budget Survey is used for:
- analysis of structural changes in consumption resulting from changes in economy,
- construction of poverty line on the basis of which is determined the level of social assistance,
- calculating personal consumption of the population in National Accounts, as well as for calculating Consumer Price Index (CPI),
- calculation of quantity or value of consumption of specific products and services.
Two hundred households are interviewed every fifteen days, resulting in 4,800 households annually. The data is collected using two methods: diary keeping and face-to-face interviews. A household keeps an individual consumption diary for fifteen days, documenting items and services of individual consumption. In interviews, the reference period for durable goods is twelve months, for semi-durable goods is three months, and for income, agriculture, hunting and fishing is three months.
Sample survey data [ssd]
A survey unit is a single- or several-member household, selected according to the sample plan.
Household members are the following persons:
- Pupils and students are considered members of a household, regardless the time spent outside his/her household (schools, universities);
- Household members, temporarily absent (persons in compulsory military service, serving the sentence in prison less than a year) are included in the survey;
- Daily or weekly migrants, persons who work or go to school in other place in the country or abroad and have economic relations with household (with no household there) where they stay more than a month during a year, are also considered as household members and temporarily absent persons;
- Persons who stay longer in other place in the country or abroad (a year and more), but rarely come or absolutely don’t come to the place of resident place are considered as long-term absents and are excluded from the survey;
- Subtenants (lodgers) who live in same dwelling or house with household, but do not eat together with household members, are not included into members of that household, but are separate household with residence on that address and are surveyed as separate household in that housing unit.
Version
v01
Scope
The scope of the Household Budget Survey includes:
- household characteristics and economic activities,
- housing,
- purchase, sale of durable and semi-durable goods,
- income, transfers, loans and savings,
- expenses and consumption of a household.
Coverage
National
Cities and settlements
The survey covers all private households in Serbia. HBS does not cover collective households (hospitals, prisons, monasteries, boarding schools and similar). But, if a person stays in a collective household for less than six month, then he or she is included the survey.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia | SORS |
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia |
Sampling
A two-stage stratified sample is used in the survey, with enumerative districts as primary units and households as secondary ones.
Basic geographical strata are Central Serbia (without Belgrade), Belgrade, and Vojvodina. Primary units (enumerative districts) were classified according to the 1991 Census into two contingents - urban (city) and rural (village) depending on the type of settlement they belonged to.
Every fifteen days 40 enumerated districts have been chosen (200 households). Last stratification step (determined by number of households) is grouping of primary units by size. For each formed contingent of the enumerated districts, relevant primary units have been arranged according to number of households. Thus, two size strata with same or approximate total number of households were formed. Sample allocation of primary units by geographical strata that is, by areas - urban and rural, is proportional to the number of observation units in those contingents. Enumerative districts with at least 30 households in the urban area, and those with at least 15 households in rural area were used for determining the scope for primary units selection.
Primary units (enumerative districts) were selected within the sample with likelihood of selection proportional to the number of households within them. Within the selected primary units, by simple random selection, five households were selected. The substitution of households is not predicted. New households, formed within the chosen household in the same housing unit have been surveyed, too.
Weighting factors were used to adjust for sampling, non-response and benchmarking.
Survey instrument
Researchers collect data with the help of face-to-face interviews and diaries that are kept by household members.
Diaries gather expenditure information on the following items:
- food,
- alcohol, tobacco,
- other household non-durables (such as newspapers, batteries),
- clothing, footwear,
- other personal non-durables (such as perfume),
- household services (for example, plumbing services),
- personal services (such as driving lessons, haircuts),
- all items except durables.
Questionnaires collect other expenditure data, with the respondent completing the interview by a mix of recall and use of documentation. COICOP classification is used to code expenditure items.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 2008 |
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia |
HBS is conducted by an authorized interviewer from the Republic Statistical Office of Serbia, who visits a household a few days before the survey starts. The interviewer leaves the journal and gives instructions for filling it out. After seven days, the interviewer visits the household again and offers assistance in keeping the journal. After 15 days the interviewer comes to take the filled journal and collect the remaining data.
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:
Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Serbia Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2008, Ref. SRB_2008_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 | |
|---|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia | stat@stat.gov.rs |
Metadata production
DDI_SRB_2008_HBS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Julia Dukhno | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Revision of study documentation |
2011-05-09
Metadata version
v01