Investigating the Effects of the Household Budget Survey Redesign on Consumption and Inequality Estimates: the Italian Experience

In 2014, many innovations were introduced in the Italian Household Budget Survey (HBS) in response to changes in European recommendations and purchasing behaviours and to an increased demand for information in the context of social and economic research. New instruments and techniques have been intr...

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Published in:Journal of official statistics 2020-06, Vol.36 (2), p.411-434
Main Authors: Pannuzi, Nicoletta, Grassi, Donatella, Lemmi, Achille, Masi, Alessandra, Regoli, Andrea
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
Budgets
Consumption
data quality
Estimates
Expenditures
Households
Inequality
Investigations
Polls & surveys
Population
post-stratification
Purchasing
Redesign
Survey design
Variables
zero expenditures
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Summary:In 2014, many innovations were introduced in the Italian Household Budget Survey (HBS) in response to changes in European recommendations and purchasing behaviours and to an increased demand for information in the context of social and economic research. New instruments and techniques have been introduced, together with more accurate methodologies, with the aim of improving the survey, by both reducing the bias and variance of survey estimates and supplying estimation for additional subpopulations and variables. Given the parallel conduction of the former and new HBS in 2013, it has been possible to evaluate the effects of the abovementioned changes on consumption expenditure and inequality estimates and to compare the sample representativeness of selected subpopulations in both surveys.
ISSN:0282-423X
2001-7367
2001-7367
DOI:10.2478/jos-2020-0021