Household Budget Survey 2003
Slovenia, 2003
Identification
SVN_2003_HBS_v01_M
Household Budget Survey 2003
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Slovenia | SVN |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
In 1997, Slovenia Household Budget Survey (HBS), which had been conducted in the country previously, was converted into a continuous study and redesigned according to EUROSTAT recommendations.
The Household Budget Survey provides information about living standards and social situation of private households, especially information on development and structure of their expenditures and incomes. Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) is applied, as required for HBS by EUROSTAT.
Random probability sample is used to select households. Households are surveyed throughout the year, and each household cooperates in the survey for 14 days. Data is collected through interviews and expenditure and consumption diaries filled by household members.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Individuals,
- Households.
Household is a community of persons who live together and share their income to cover the basic cost of living (food, accommodation, etc.). A member of a household can however temporarily live apart because of a work, school or other reasons. A household is also a person who lives alone and does not have his/her own household elsewhere. She/he can live in the same dwelling with other persons but does not share income for covering the cost of living.
Version
v01
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- Characteristics of household members,
- Dwelling, housing conditions,
- Availability of consumer durables,
- Money transfers and gifts, income
- Financial state of household,
- Travels and holiday,
- Own production consumed in household,
- Food and nonfood items expenditure.
Coverage
National
Cities and settlements
All private households. The survey does not cover collective households, foreigners temporarily living in Slovenia, and the homeless.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |
Sampling
The sample stratification was made based on 12 statistical regions and six types of settlements. In bigger settlements (with over 10,000 inhabitants) simple random sampling was used. In smaller settlements sampling of clusters with four people, who define the household, was applied. First, enumeration areas were selected (taking into account their size) for the whole year and then for each quarter four persons in each enumeration area were selected. In bigger settlements only persons were selected with simple random sampling for each quarter. The method of substitution (selecting substitute households that would replace the ones that did not cooperate) was not used; instead researchers increased the sample according to the response rate from previous years.
The Central Population Register was used as the sampling frame.
All selected households do not have the same probability of selection. Households with more adult persons have a higher probability of selection. Researchers solved this problem with weighting (inversely proportional to probability of selection). Weights were also used to take into account survey nonresponse (inversely proportional to the response rate by strata).
Sample weights are calculated by strata. In order to achieve representativity of the sample, auxiliary data (Census 1991, CRP, LFS) was used to do post-stratification according to a region, household size, age and sex. Data is also weighted depending on reference period, source (questionnaire, diary) and a type of a variable. The final weight is a product of all these weights.
Survey instrument
A household questionnaire and diaries are used to collect data.
Two types of diaries were designed:
- Diary for the main purchaser (Diary A);
- Diary for other members 14 or more years old (Diary B).
Respondents fill in the diaries for 14 days, starting one day after the first visit of the interviewer.
Diary B is voluntary; it is not kept by each household member. It is designed for household members who usually make their own purchases. Diary B records the same information as Diary A; its structure is the same as the structure of Diary A, but it is a little shorter. If a main purchaser fills information for purchases made by other household member in Diary A, the same expense should not be recorded in Diary B.
The questionnaire is divided into two parts. The first part is filled in during the first visit before the recording period. The interviewer hands out the diaries and starts with the first part of the interview which covers information on household members (gender, marital status, educational level, work), housing conditions and housing costs, purchases of a dwelling or house and availability of durables. The second part of the interview takes place after 14 days, at the second visit. It includes information on expenditures not covered by the diary (purchase of a car, motorcycle, boat, major durables, furniture, clothing and footwear, domestic help, health and education expenditure, insurance, financial transfers and financial situation, some taxes and other expenditure), holidays, income and consumption of own production.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 2003 |
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |
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 Slovenia. Slovenia Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2003, Ref. SVN_2003_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 Slovenia | info.stat@gov.si |
Metadata production
DDI_SVN_2003_HBS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Julia Dukhno | World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Revision of study documentation |
2012-04-25
Metadata version
Version 01