Service files from Household Budget Survey time series

Time series files

Five different service files, from the years 1985, 1990, 1994-1996, 1998, and one from 2001-2002.

General description

Comparable data on the consumption, income, debts, ownership of consumer durables and living conditions of households, formed from the data of the Household Budget Survey, i.e. data obtained with household inquiries.

The datafiles are based on samples of varying sizes. For example, the number of surveyed households in 1985 was around 8,200 while in 2001-2002 they numbered about 5,500. The data are household-specific. Euro amounts conform with currency values for the years concerned.

Studied topics

Background information on households (altogether over 100 variables):

• Living area
• Structure of household
• Income
• Debts
• Months of activity of household members
• Information about reference person and spouse
• Housing conditions
• Ownership of durable goods

Household consumption expenditure, EUR/year (altogether 900 variables):

• Food and non-alcoholic beverages
• Alcoholic beverages and tobacco
• Clothing and footwear
• Housing and energy
• Furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenance of the house
• Health
• Transport
• Communications
• Recreation and culture
• Education
• Hotels, cafés and restaurants
• Miscellaneous goods and services

Other information

Additional data on other topics, such as personal consumption or food volumes are also available from individual surveys.

Datafile sizes

Numbers of variables

• Some 900 variables on consumption
• 160 background variables on households

Supply of files

• As SAS, ASCII or SPSS files

Prices

The price for the first service file is EUR 3,500 without VAT, subsequent files will be charged at EUR 3,000 (+ VAT). Prices for other data are subject to agreement.

Delivery time

Delivery within 2 to 3 weeks from order.

User licence

Files can be released for scientific research purposes subject to user licence agreements.

Inquiries

Airi Pajunen, telephone: +358 9 1734 3408; e-mail: airi.pajunen@stat.fi

Last modified 2.4.2003