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Reference period |
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Year:
2013
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General characteristics |
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Contents:
Purchasing behaviour; Sociodemographic characteristics of individuals; Housing condition; Possession of household durable goods; Mean of the monthly household consumption expenditure
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Analysis units:
Households
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Periodicity:
Quarterly
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EU legislation:
No
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Survey design |
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Type:
Two-stage stratified random sampling
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Data collection |
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Reporting units:
Households
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Data collection mode:
Sel-admninistered paper diary; Face to face interviewing with paper questionnaire
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Total units:
7637 (annual average)
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Respondents:
5401 (annual average)
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Quality |
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Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Adjustement methods to reduce the effect of unit nonresponse on the results
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Item nonresponse and measurement error treatment:
Operator training and supervision and assessment of survey procedures; Interviewer training, monitoring and supervision; Adjustement methods to reduce the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Methods to estimate the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Recontact of the units
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Validation:
Coherence control with data from other surveys or sources; Coherence control with previous data of the same survey
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Data dissemination |
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Istat data bases:
I.Stat; Serie storiche
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Other data bases:
None
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Press releases:
I consumi delle famiglie. Anno 2013
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Timeliness of provisional data:
Not released
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Timeliness of final data:
6 months and 9 days
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