Household Budget Survey 2004
Slovak Republic, 2004
Identification
SVK_2004_HBS_v01_M
Household Budget Survey 2004
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Slovak Republic | SVK |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
Since the last half of the 1950s, the Household Budget Survey (HBS) has been released as a regular annual survey. Up to 1992, the Czechoslovak statistical office in Prague carried out implementation of the survey. From 1993 the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic has been responsible for HBS in the independent Slovak Republic.
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. Data is also used to obtain weights for Consumer Price Index and to estimate household expenditure for National Accounts. Following EUROSTAT recommendations for HBS, Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) is applied to code expenditure. The recommendations are published in "Household Budget Surveys in the EU: Methodology and recommendations for harmonisation, 2003." For income items, the survey follows Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council concerning community statistics on income and living conditions (EU SILC).
In 2004, the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic introduced stratified random sampling, with monthly exchange of households.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Households,
- individuals.
A household is defined as one or more persons fulfilling two conditions:
- live together in the same dwelling,
- participate together at expenditure, before all on housing and eating.
Version
v01
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- Characteristics of household members,
- Real estate, housing conditions, housing expenses,
- Availability of consumer durables,
- Income,
- Employment,
- Food and nonfood items expenditure.
Coverage
National
Cities and settlements
- Private households in the Slovak Republic.
Collective households, such as as monasteries, hospitals, collective homes, and prisons are not included in the survey.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic |
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic |
Sampling
The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic started applying stratified random sample for Household Budget Surveys in 2004.
Previously, the quota sampling was implemented. Such available information as planned wages and social incomes, planned distribution of consumption goods and services, and lower costs allowed using the quota sampling. But during the nineties the political, economic and social conditions in the Slovak Republic changed. Data, which were applied for the correct definition of sample quota of HBS, had to be estimated to a high degree. This was the reason the sampling technique was changed.
The new sample has the following characteristics:
Sample size - approximately 4,700 households a year,
Sample frame - household file produced from data of Population and Housing Census 2001,
First stratum - administrative regions (in each region the same number of households was selected),
Second stratum - size group of municipality (size group was defined by number of population; in each group households were proportionally selected in relation to proportional division of households in each administrative region),
First stage - in each region municipalities were selected from each size group,
Second stage - in each selected municipality or town, households were selected using systematic random sampling technique.
In 2004, the response rate was 68 %.
Survey instrument
Household diaries and personal interviews are used to collect data from households.
Household diary is filled in by a household during one month. The diary records current expenditure and income for the whole household.
Personal interviews gather information about household members, dwelling, household equipment, ownership of selected real estate, income, and expenditure on durable goods.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 2004 |
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic |
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 Slovak Republic. Slovak Republic Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2004, Ref. SVK_2004_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 Slovak Republic | info@statistics.sk |
Metadata production
DDI_SVK_2004_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
Metadata version
Version 01