Abstract

The Survey on Income and Living Conditions, introduced as part of the European Union harmonisation efforts, aims to produce data on income distribution, relative poverty by income, living conditions and social exclusion comparable with European Union member states. The study which uses a panel survey method is repeated every year and monitors sample of household members for four years. Every year, the study attempts to obtain two datasets: cross-sectional and panel.

The Income and Living Conditions Survey 2010 has been conducted to provide annual and regular cross-sectional data to answer questions such as:

• How equally is the income in the country distributed and how has it changed as compared to the previous years?
• How many poor people are there in the country and how do they distribute across regions? How has this situation changed as compared to the previous years?
• Who is poor? Has there been a change over time?
• How has this gap between the poor and the rich evolved over time?
• What kind of a change or transition occurs in the incomes of individuals and households? How does the direction of this change depends on characteristics and circumstances, does it decline or grow?
• How is the income distributed across sectors, types of income and household characteristics?
• How do people's living conditions change or improve over time?
• The study also aims to provide panel data to calculate indicators such as persistent income poverty and to measure net changes over time.

The cross-sectional database 2010 is documented here.

Geographic coverage

All settlements within the borders of the Republic of Turkey have been included.

Universe

All household members living in households within the borders of the Republic of Turkey. However, the study excludes the population defined as institutional population living in hospices, elderly homes, prisons, military barracks, private hospitals and in childcare centres. Migrant population has also been excluded due to practical challenges.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sampling method: Stratified, multi-stage, clustered sampling.

Sampling unit: Household.

Sampling framework: Sampling framework has been derived from 2 sources:

1. For the settlements with municipal status; General Building Census conducted in 2000 by TurkStat and Numbering Study (conducted in 2000) Form Population 1 data have been used.
2. For the settlements without municipal status (Villages); data of General Population Census conducted in 2000 have been used to select the blocks which constituted the sampling unit of the first stage.

Selection of sample households: for the purposes of the study which used a two-staged sampling design; entire Turkey has been divided into blocks which covered 100 households each.

• At the first stage, blocks were selected as the first stage sampling unit
• At the second stage, households were selected from among the previously selected blocks as the final sampling unit. Prior to the selection of sample households, addresses at the blocks were updated through an "address screening study"

Sample size: Annual sampling size is 13,414 households in respect of the estimation, objectives and targeted variables of the study and in consideration of the attritions in the sample.

Substitution principle: Substitution has not been used as the sample size had been calculated by taking account of non-response.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

• Household registry form: The form filled at the beginning of the survey provides brief information on access to the address of the household, condition of the household and of the survey. Moreover, following the first field application, modalities are identified for filling in the monitoring forms if the households included in the panel survey move home.

• Personal registry form: These forms aim to identify basic demographic characteristics of the household members, changes that occur in the status of household membership of the individuals included in the panel survey, reasons for their leaving the household, the date of their departure etc. as well as individuals who join the household.

• Household and personal follow-up form: There is need for following up the households which have moved home and the sample individuals who have left the household to join or found another one. Household and personal follow-up forms are used to identify their new addresses and access their contact information.

• Household questionnaire: These forms attempt to collect information on the type of the occupied dwelling, status of ownership, information relating to the dwelling (number of rooms, the space actually used, heating system, dwelling facilities, goods owned etc), problems of the dwelling of the neighbourhood, status of indebtedness, rent payments, expenditures for the dwelling, the extent to which households are able to meet their general economic and basic needs and incomes earned at household level.

• Personal questionnaire: These forms attempt to collect information on education, health, employment and marital status of the household members aged 15 and over, as well as the dates of employment and incomes earned during the reference year.

Abstract

The Survey on Income and Living Conditions, introduced as part of the European Union harmonisation efforts, aims to produce data on income distribution, relative poverty by income, living conditions and social exclusion comparable with European Union member states. The study which uses a panel survey method is repeated every year and monitors sample of household members for four years. Every year, the study attempts to obtain two datasets: cross-sectional and panel.

The Income and Living Conditions Survey 2015 has been conducted to provide annual and regular cross-sectional data to answer questions such as:

• How equally is the income in the country distributed and how has it changed as compared to the previous years?
• How many poor people are there in the country and how do they distribute across regions? How has this situation changed as compared to the previous years?
• Who is poor? Has there been a change over time?
• How has this gap between the poor and the rich evolved over time?
• What kind of a change or transition occurs in the incomes of individuals and households? How does the direction of this change depends on characteristics and circumstances, does it decline or grow?
• How is the income distributed across sectors, types of income and household characteristics?
• How do people's living conditions change or improve over time?
• The study also aims to provide panel data to calculate indicators such as persistent income poverty and to measure net changes over time.

The cross-sectional database 2016 is documented here.

Geographic coverage

The survey is implemented on the territory of the Republic of Serbia and the processing provides data for the Republic of Serbia (total) and for the regions: Belgrade region, Vojvodina region, Sumadija and Western Serbia, and Southern and Eastern Serbia.

Universe

Observation units are households selected according to the sample plan, whether these were one-person or several-member households, as well as all household members aged 15 and over. Collective households were not included in this survey.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sample design for the survey is a two-stage stratified sample with enumeration areas as the primary and households as the secondary units of selection. From an original sample design that included 8,008 of the households, 6,501 households were surveyed (81.2%), which included 17,187 persons aged 15 and over.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

• Household questionnaire
• Personal questionnaire

The President's Commission on Pension Policy contracted for a household pension survey primarily to determine the effect of social security and pensions on savings behaviour. Due to the complexity of determining savings rates, the analysis required demographic, employment, pension, social security, asset, and income data of family units. Thus, resulting database is rich, and could be used for other analysis as well. The bulk of the database comes from two interviews, one year apart. The WAVE I interview was conducted in September 1979 and the Wave II interview was conducted in September 1980. Approximately two-thirds of those surveyed responded to the Wave I interview. The Wave I data are composed of 4,605 family units or 6,578 adults. Fifty-four percent -- 2,489 families -- of those interviewed in Wave I responded to the Wave II interview. Interview data were collected for all persons in each household surveyed. Households were divided into family units and much of the data, asset data in particular, were gathered on a family basis. A family unit is defined as an adult 18 years or older and his or her spouse and children under age 18. Some of the data, such as employment and demographic data, area available on an individual basis.

Egypt Average Household Income: Value data was reported at 81,466.600 EGP in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 69,059.600 EGP for 2020. Egypt Average Household Income: Value data is updated yearly, averaging 37,342.750 EGP from Jun 2005 (Median) to 2022, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 81,466.600 EGP in 2022 and a record low of 13,457.900 EGP in 2005. Egypt Average Household Income: Value data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Egypt – Table EG.H012: Average Household Income.