Household Budget Surveys

Aleksander SKIBINSKI
Aleksander SKIBINSKI • 10 October 2023
Name of the series - acronym, in original language
HBS
Abstract

Household budget surveys (HBSs) are national surveys focusing mainly on household expenditure on goods and services. They are conducted in all EU Member States and their main aim (especially at national level) is to calculate weights for the Consumer Price Index.


 

HBS scientific-use files are comprised mainly of 2 groups of data:

  • Household: variables concerning the household as a whole
  • Household members: variables concerning household members

Survey reference year: 2010

Geographic coverage

The HBS scientific use files are available for 26 countries:

BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, FR, IE, IT, EL, ES, HR, HU, CY, LV, LT, LU, MT, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, SE, FI, UK.

Survey reference year: 2015

The HBS scientific use files are available for 23 countries:

BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, EE, FR, IE, IT, EL, ES, HR, HU, CY, LV, LT, LU, PL, PT, RO, SK, SE, FI.

Periodicity
other
Time method
Cross-section
Other periodicity
every 5 years
Time period
1988
=>
2020

Types of available microdata

Consistency type

  Public Use Files Scientific Use Files Secure Use Files
public
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students
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phD students
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researches
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foreign researches
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Access mode

  Public Use Files Scientific Use Files Secure Use Files
online access
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for download
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onsite access
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remote access
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remote excecution
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Update date
15/12/2021

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