National Seminar on Developing a Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey Derya TUNCER 10 September 2013 Ankara - Turkey

Household Budget Survey (HBS) Turkish Statistical Institute September 10-13, 2013 National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Purpose To get data on the determination of the commodities and weights for the consumer price indices, To monitor the changes of households consumption patterns, Determination of number and level of poor people, To obtain required data for analysis on households living standards, feeding problems, calculations on minimum wage and other social indicators, Data for the estimates of private final consumption expenditure in national accounts National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

History First survey in and 1994 Household Income and Consumption Expenditures Surveys Annual regular surveys since 2002 (Household Budget Survey) National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Sample size 2002 HBS monthly 800, annualy 9600 households 2003 HBS monthly 2160, annualy households HBS monthly 720, annualy 8640 households Since 2009 HBS monthly 1104, annualy households. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Estimation level 2002 whole Turkey at urban and rural breakdown 2003 whole Turkey at urban and rural breakdown - NUTS level 1 (12 regions) - NUTS level 2 (26 regions) National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Estimation level Since Turkey at urban/rural breakdown (using each years survey data ) -Distribuiton of expenditures at NUTS level-1 and level-2 Non-response rate: For 2011 Household Budget Survey, the non- response rate was 24.5% in rural areas, 25.4% in urban areas, and 25.1% for overall Turkey. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Data Resorces and Data Collection Methodology: Household Budget Survey was carried out yearly by following different sample households alternately each month. Timing of recording transactions is the month when households are surveyed. A letter and a brochure have been sent to sample households before the survey. HBS is applied to households by Regional Offices by using laptops and face-to-face interview, and keeping diaries by households. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Data Resorces and Data Collection Methodology: Interviewers visit about 6 households about 8 times, along a month, Diaries for recording consumption expenditures have been given to the households at the beginning of the survey. Data on income status, economic activity, occupation, employment status and income are asked at the last visit. The survey has been implemented by using CAPI (computer assisted personel interview) system, National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Data Resorces and Data Collection Methodology : SAS has been used in analyzing & controlling of data. After data entry, the first stage control and analysis are done by Regional Offices. All cleaned data sets are sent to the Center. Data sets are combined and analysed in detail by the Center. After weighting, final tables are prepared. Quality control studies (telephone calls) has been done at HBS since May National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Reference periods: General situation of households, consumption habits current situation Durable goods and services last 12 months including survey month Consumption expenditures survey month The questions about employment the last week of the survey month Disposable income last 12 months including survey month National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

3 basic groups of variables have been obtained from the survey: 1. Variables of socio-economic status of the households: type of dwelling, status of property, heating system, dwelling facilities, durables and vehicles owned etc. 2. Variables of consumption expenditures: definition, style of possession, amount, market unit price, total value, purchase place of the consumer goods and services. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

3 basic groups of variables have been obtained from the survey: 3. Variables of household composition, employment and income status: variables related to individuals age, gender, educational status, marital status, employment status (occupation, economic activity, employment status, social security), activity and non-activity incomes in the survey month and during last year National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Publish and Timeliness: Last press release is published at first week of september. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey Press Release Dynamic database on internet Micro Data CD Format

Classifications Used COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose): This is a classification system used during recording all good and service expenditures of the households in survey month into mechanical environment. COICOP/HBS has been used. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

Classifications Used: NACE Rev 2: This is used classify economic activities of the workplace (business) of household member who actively carry out an economic activity. ISCO-08: This is used to classify occupations and profession groups of the household individuals who actively carry out an economic activity. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

HBS at Eurostats side Data are collected on the basis of a gentlemen's agreement approximately every five years. Data are available in Eurobase. The most recent information is relating to the 2005 wave which was published in Combined micro data sets of household budget surveys for years 2008, 2009 and 2010 and its report were transmitted to Eurostat in 2013.

We Discuss; Changing frequency of HBS for estimation at NUTS1 or NUTS2 level. Constructing a conversion factors table to convert local units into metric units (kg, lt) More appropriate method for imputed rents, Revising poverty methodology based on HBS. National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

What We Want To Do In Future… ; We are have in view ; To increase HBSs sample size, To increase compensation rate, (Private Final Consumption Expenditure of national accounts has been compared with HBS.) National Seminar on Developing A Program for the Implementation of the 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in Turkey 10 September 2013 / Ankara - Turkey

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