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XML DDI-C 2.5 Documentation for study SN150-1.0 UniData - Bicocca Data Archive UniData metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Italian License Household Budget Survey (1998) Indagine sui consumi delle famiglie (1998) SN150 Istat 2016-04-12 UniData - Bicocca Data Archive UniData - Bicocca Data Archive consumptionsfamilyhouseeconomypovertyincome ECONOMICS - consumption/consumer behaviourECONOMICS - economic conditions and indicatorsECONOMICS - income, property and investment/saving The Household Budget Survey records all residing household expenditures to purchase goods and services to meet their needs; it is the main data source to describe, analyze and explain household spending behaviors. The survey allows analyzing the evolution of the household expenditure level and composition, according to household socio-demographic characteristics. Households are selected at the beginning of yearly cycle by registry list in the sample district. The survey is conducted through two different techniques: a self-consumption diary, in which the household records purchases over a seven-day period, and a final face-to-face interview. In the reference week, households daily take note about purchase of large consumption goods using a questionnaire named “Purchase Diary”. If households produce goods by themselves, they take note in another diary called “Self-consumption Diary”. At the beginning of the next month, a final face-to-face interview is arranged by ISTAT. According to the sample design, each year approximately 28,000 households are interviewed. The survey refers to the total cost of the goods or services purchased, apart from the moment of consumption or the payment instruments. The main topic of this survey are as follows: - socio-demographic characteristics - dwelling characteristics - main dwelling (characteristics, services, tenure status, expenditures, maintenance) - secondary dwelling (expenditures, maintenance) - durable goods - furniture and equipments purchase - indoor and garden furniture - small equipments and home accessories - clothing and footwear - health - public transportation and communication - means of transport - communication devices - leisure time, culture and education - leisure time - culture - education - holidays - other services - personal belongings, not classified otherwise - recurring and extraordinary expenditures - spending habits - salary and savings - purchase diary - self-consumption diary There’s a cross-section “Salary and savings” where information about components income, wage earners, medium income of households and yearly savings are collected. Every item of expenditure reported in the dataset refers to a period of one month. Istat uses the survey for the determination of the relative poverty. Italy family Whole national population individual data longitudinal (trend repeated cross-section) 21.586 families. Two-stage stratified random sample face to face interviewself-administered questionnaire Data are available only for members of UniData. Data are released only for scientific purpose. User agrees not to redistribute data to the third party, even in partial form, and to quote the data source in all publications using the information showed later. Other users will need to directly contact Istat. Istat. (1998) Household Budget Survey. UniData - Bicocca Data Archive, Milan. Study Number SN150. Data file version 1.0 The user is obliged to quote all data and documents disseminated by UniData and used in the own publications, using the information previously showed. The user is also obliged to send UniData the bibliographic citations related to the publications where the requested data and documents are used Methodological Notes http://oai.unidata.unimib.it/v0/oai SN150 2021-10-01T13:40:15Z ddi:codebook:2_5