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<p>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.</p>
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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.

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

Tuscan Interuniversity Research Centre “Camilo Dagum” University of Pisa

Department of Management and Quantitative Studies

Journal of Official Statistics

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In 2014, many innovations were introduced in the Italian Household Budget Survey (HBS) in response to changes in European recommendations and purchasing...

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

Published Online: Jun 15, 2020

Page range: 411 - 434

Received: Aug 01, 2018

Accepted: Jan 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2020-0021

Keywords
Survey design, data quality, zero expenditures, post-stratification

© 2020 Nicoletta Pannuzi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Published Online: Jun 15, 2020

Page range: 411 - 434

Received: Aug 01, 2018

Accepted: Jan 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2020-0021

KeywordsSurvey design, data quality, zero expenditures, post-stratification

© 2020 Nicoletta Pannuzi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Survey design, data quality, zero expenditures, post-stratification