HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY 2006/2007
Methodological Report
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY 2006/2007
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Objectives
1.3 Historical development
1.4 Coverage
1.5 Legal authority and confidentiality
Chapter 2: Survey Organisation and Operations
2.1 Organisations involved
2.2 Office organisation
2.3 Responsibilities of office staff
2.4 Training of office staff
2.5 Home Assignment
2.6 Field organisation
2.7 Recruitment of field staff
2.8 Terms of appointment of field staff
2.8.1 Chief Supervisor
2.8.2 Senior Supervisor
2.8.3 Supervisor
2.8.4 Interviewer
2.8.5 Co-ordinator
2.9 Training of field staff
2.9.1 Island of Mauritius
2.9.2 Island of Rodrigues
2.10 Calendar of activities
2.11 Survey cost
2.12 Publicity
Chapter 3: Concepts and definitions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Household
3.3 Income
3.3.1 Disposable income
3.3.2 Employee income
3.3.3 Income from self-employment
3.3.4 Property income
3.3.5 Transfer income
3.3.6 Other income
3.4 Expenditure
3.5 Comparison of expenditure against income
Chapter 4: Sampling Methodology
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Sampling design
4.3 Sampling frame
4.4 Selection of Clusters
4.5 Relative Development Index
4.6 Selection of households
4.7 Final sample size, losses and replacement
Chapter 5: Survey documents
5.1 Introduction
5.2 HBS 1 – Listing schedule
5.3 HBS 2 – Household schedule
5.4 HBS 3 – Daily records of household expenditure
5.5 HBS 3B schedule
5.6 HBS 4 – Income schedule
5.7 HBS 5 – Point of purchase questionnaire
5.8 Control document
5.9 Instruction manuals
Chapter 6: Data collection
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Listing of households
6.3 Interviewing of households
6.4 Supervision and control
Chapter 7: Data Processing and Reporting
7.1 Editing and coding
7.2 Data capture
7.3 Tabulation
7.4 Reporting of results
Chapter 8: Reliability of survey data
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Sources of non-sampling errors and control
8.2.1 Questionnaire design
8.2.2 Data collection
8.2.3 Data processing
8.2.4 Sampling frame
8.3 Sampling Errors
8.3.1 Representativeness of the sample
8.4 Comparison of expenditure data with data from other sources
Chapter 9: Problems and Recommendations
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Office Organisation
9.2.1 Accommodation
9.2.2 Temporary staff
9.2.3 Editing and coding
9.2.4 Collection of documents
9.3 Field Organisation
9.3.1 Field staff recruitment
9.3.2 Travelling allowances
9.3.3 Training of fieldstaff
9.4 Questionnaire design/Data capture
9.5 Publicity
Chapter 10: Introduction to the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Measurement of the CPI
10.3 Uses of the CPI
10.4 Misconceptions about the CPI
10.5 Reviews of the CPI – The CPI Advisory Committee
Chapter 11: Determination of the CPI basket
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Expenditure data used
11.3 Treatment of certain items of expenditure
11.4 The updated weighting system
11.5 Comparison with the previous weighting system
11.6 Item indicators and price quotations
11.7 Updating of item indicators
Chapter 12: The price collection system
12.1 Sources of price data
12.2 Method of price collection
12.3 Special problems
Chapter 13: Computation of the CPI
13.1 Formula
13.2 Calculating the CPI
13.3 Treatment of certain items
13.4 Reliability of the CPI
Chapter 14: Interpretation and dissemination of the CPI
14.1 Analysing changes in index numbers
14.2 Index numbers for periods longer than months
14.3 Indicators based on the CPI
14.3.1 Inflation
14.3.2 Purchasing power
14.4 Linking of indices
14.5 Release of the CPI
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