Household Budget Survey (S)

Reference period  
Year:
2014

General characteristics  
Contents:
Purchasing behaviour; Housing condition; Household socio-economic condition and poverty; Possession of household durable goods; Household expenditure on consumption
Analysis units:
Households
Periodicity:
Quarterly
EU legislation:
No

Survey design  
Type:
Two-stage stratified random sampling

Data collection  
Reporting units:
Households
Data collection mode:
Sel-admninistered paper diary; Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
Total units:
10083 (annual average)
Respondents:
4310 (annual average)

Quality  
Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Adjustement methods to reduce the effect of unit nonresponse on the results; Methods to measure the effect of unit nonresponse on the results
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; Questionnaire testing
Validation:
Coherence control with data from other surveys or sources; Coherence control with previous data of the same survey

Data dissemination  
Istat data bases:
I.Stat
Other data bases:
Banca dati Eurostat - Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union); File per la Ricerca - Istat (National Statistical Institute of Italy)
Press releases:
Household consumptions
Timeliness of provisional data:
Not released
Timeliness of final data:
7 months and 10 days