Household Budget Survey 2011
North Macedonia, 2011
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Household Budget Survey 2011
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| North Macedonia | MKD |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
The Macedonia Household Budget Survey (HBS) that State statistical office is carrying out is used for gathering data about income, expenditures and household consumption. However, with this survey there is gathered other more important data for living standard such as housing conditions, the way of heating of the dwelling, the level of supplies with durable goods, minimal financial assets needed for ends meet.
The goal of the Household Budget Survey (HBS) is to gather data about the revenues, expenditures and consumption of the households. Except that, the Survey gathers data about certain important data of the living standards (housing conditions, heating of the apartment-house, supply with permanent consumption goods), as well as basic data about the demographic, economic and sociological characteristics of the households.
The gathered data, using the relevant methods, give the opportunity to realize the level and structure of the personal consumption in the households in general and especially by certain socio-economic categories. The distribution of the households in socio-economic categories enables to realize the existing differences in the level and structure of the personal consumption of the households as a significant material component of the living standards of the population.
Additionally, the data of the survey shall be used for drawing up the weights for calculation of the cost of living index, calculation of the personal consumption balance etc. The data of the survey shall also enable to calculate the poverty lines by household types which are bases for the cash benefits and social assistance.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households and Individuals
Version
Version 02
2011
Scope
The scope of the survey includes:
- income;
- expenditures;
- household consumption;
- housing conditions;
- home heating method;
- durable consumer goods.
Coverage
The household consumption survey is conducted on the entire territory of the Republic of Macedonia FYR.
Cities and settlements
All household members.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia |
Sampling
The survey is conducted on sample of 5040 households on the whole territory of the country, which is about 1% of the total number of households in the country. The frame of the selection are all enumeration districts that contain above 20 households, from Census 2002. The sample is two-stage stratified. Primary sampling units are the enumeration districts and secondary sampling units are the adresses of households.
For the needs of the sample stratification on two levels with the total 16 strata was made:
- Eight geographical regions, NUTS 3;
- Two contingents- urban and rural areas.
In the sample were 210 enumeration districts. The allocation of the sample in the stratas for the first stage is proportionally to the number of households in the region, and in the second stage for each selected enumeration district each quarter 6 households were selected randomly with equal probability. Each quarter were interviewed 1260 households, or 5040 different households on annual level.
Survey instrument
The survey is conducted through 4 basic forms:
- Form APD-1 (15-day Diary)
- Form APD-2 (Questionnaire-replacement for a Diary)
- Form APD-3 (Household Questionnaire)
- Form APD-4 (Non-response Questionnaire)
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 2011 |
Reported period is the period for which the data are collected, ie, the Survey data are collected for three months, except for the log and the replacement for the log with which the data is collected for 15 days. Two methods are used in the Survey: the method of keeping a diary by the surveyed household and the question-based interview method.
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:
State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonia Household Budget Survey (HBS) 2011, Ref. MKD_2011_HBS_v02_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.
State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| ECA Team for Statistical Development | World Bank | ecatsd@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_MKD_2011_HBS_v02_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Poverty-GP | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2019-01-02
Metadata version
-Version 02 (January 2019)
Second version of data received.
-Version 01 (January 2015)