Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

households/individuals

Kind of data

survey

Frequency of data collection

Yearly

Sampling procedure

Sample size:

Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos uždaroji akcinė bendrovė "BELSTAT" finansinė informacija: pelnas, metinė apyvarta, sumokėti mokesčiai, pardavimo pajamos, nuosavas kapitalas, turtas (ilgalaikis ir trumpalaikis), pelningumo rodikliai.

Note: The data include all types of abortions (medical/pharmaceutical, vacuum/mini, and surgical).Data sources: Statistical Yearbook of The Republic of Belarus: 2011/National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, 2011, p. 228 (in Russian), available: http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/publications/archive/2011.php; Demographic Yearbook of Russia 2010: Statistical Handbook/Federal State Statistics Service, Moscow, 2010, p. 172 (in Russian), available: http://www.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat/rosstatsite/main/publishing/catalog/statisticCollections/doc_1137674209312; Statistical Yearbook of Ukraine: 2010/State Statistics Service of Ukraine, 2011, p. 465 (in Ukrainian), available: http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

households/individuals

Kind of data

survey

Frequency of data collection

Yearly

Sampling procedure

Sample size:

Abstract

For the Belarus Household Sample Survey 2015, researchers collect information on demographic characteristics of household members, housing conditions, personal subsidiary plots, property, household expenditure and income.

The information obtained from the survey is used to analyze the influence of new social processes on living standards and to develop policies aimed at social protection of various population groups. Data is also used to compile household accounts in the system of National Accounts, to calculate consumer price index for goods and services, and to estimate the poverty level in the country.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

A household is understood as the unit of the survey. For survey purposes the category "households" includes: - families consisting of a husband and a wife with or without children or single parent families; - relatives living together and having a common budget (brother and sister, grandmother and grandson and etc.); - persons living together and having a common budget but who are not relatives, for example two friends; - persons living alone; - families consisting of two and more married couples with or without children.

Universe

The survey covers all household members excluding persons fully supported by the state, for example people staying in homes for the elderly and the disabled, children in public care institutions, prisoners, etc. The survey also excludes foreigners living and working in Belarus on contract basis and families of military men living in military residential settlements or other restricted areas.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

In accordance with international standards, survey data collection and processing system were altered as well as sample designing method. Instead of branch principle that had been employed earlier, probability (random) sampling method was introduced where sampling units are determined based on the probability proportionate to population size. This method ensures sample representativeness at national and regional levels, sample results independence and intentional error avoidance. Household participation in the survey is on a voluntary basis. Sampled households are surveyed for a year and then are subject to replacement (rotation).

To conduct a sample survey, households' residential addresses are sampled. An overall number of the households living in the Republic of Belarus (according to the results of the latest population Census of the Republic of Belarus) forms universe general population during sampling with an exception of collective households and students residing in dormitories. Sampled population forming 0,2% of universe general population is annually arranged by the Belstat.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The main components of the survey are:

1) The main interview which is intended to establish the first contact with the household, to make the list of all household members, to collect the basic information about the household in general and its individual members and to fix the date for subsequent interviews. Before an interview a household receives the initial letter signed by the Minister of Statistics and Analysis stating the date and time of the interviewer's visit. The main interview is conducted in December of the previous year;

2) Four quarterly interviews, conducted in April, July, October of the current year and January of the next year. Quarterly interview covers three previous months and summarizes the information about incomes and major expenditures of the households. At the beginning of every quarter a household is given a diary for recording expenditures during the quarter. The diary is used during quarterly interviews;

3) Four two-week diaries which are handed to a household every quarter. The diary is intended for daily recording of expenditures on foodstuffs and non-food products within 14 days as well as for recording of the consumed foodstuffs which were produced at the individual subsidiary land plot or received as a present.

Cleaning operations

The following coding systems were developed and introduced for Belarus household sample survey: 1) coding of households covered by the survey; 2) coding of household expenditures; 3) coding of additional incomes and employment of household members by sectors and types of activity.