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HBS Results, 2006
Topics
 HBS general characteristic
 Indicators obtained based on HBS
 The main characteristics of households under the survey
 Definition of income, size and structure of incomes
 Definition of consumption expenditures, size and structure
of expenditures
 Poverty and inequality indicators
 Perspectives for future
HBS general characteristic
 Scope: all the persons form the households selected at
random, except for the persons who live in institutional units
(prisons, residential institutions, students’ hostels, etc.)
 Sample: 5748 households annually, each household is
surveyed during one month
 Survey tools: Household Main Questionnaire, Household
Diary, Non-response file, Interviewer’s Manual, etc.
 Data registration method : “face to face” interview, proxy
interview, self registrations
 Reference period: 2 weeks, current month, last 6 and12
months
 Period for data registration: during 3 compulsory visits.
 Results’ dissemination: quarterly and annual information
memo, statistical booklet “Aspects regarding population living
standards”, statistical year book and other statistical publications,
NBS web page
Indicators obtained based on HBS
 Monetary indicators
Income
Expenditure
Consumption
 Non-monetary indicators
Education
Health
Employment
Living standards
Evaluation of living standards
 Poverty and population inequality indicators
Level of indicators’ dissagregation: residence area, statistical
zones, types of households, characteristics of head of household,
quintiles, etc
Indicators’ generalization : quarterly and annually
Households’ characteristics
Total
Big cities
Small towns
Villages
100,0
15,6
20,6
63,8
2,8
2,7
2,8
2,8
Households’ distribution by size:
100,0
100,0
100,0
100,0
1 person
20,8
19,7
20,3
21,2
2 persons
26,9
26,9
27,1
26,8
3 persons
21,3
28,7
23,4
18,9
4 persons
19,0
17,5
21,2
18,7
5 and more persons
12,0
7,1
8,0
14,5
Number of children within the
household
100,0
100,0
100,0
100,0
1 child
31,8
26,2
20,1
23,2
2 children
11,6
14,8
17,7
16,1
3 and more children
1,8
2,8
7,0
5,3
No children
54,7
56,3
55,2
55,4
Total number of households
Household average size, persons
Income
 Disposable income – current revenues from different sources
 Incomes are registered at person level, except for the incomes
related to individual agricultural activity
Salaries
primary
Own account
activities
Property
Total incomes
Social services
secondary
Diverse current
transfers, including
remittances
Other revenues
cash incomes + in kind incomes
Population incomes (I)
 Average disposable income
per persons – 839,6 lei in
nominal terms, and 745 lei –
in real terms
 The highest incomes are in
urban area, especially in
Chisinau – 1149,1 lei
 The main income source is
salary-related activity –
41,6%;
 The main income source in
rural area is income from
individual agricultural
activity– 34,5%
 Remittances are an
important income source –
14%
Total
Small
towns
Big
cities
Villages
839,6
1149,1
811,0
723,8
Salary activity
41,6
61,4
49,3
26,1
Agricultural activity
18,6
0,3
6,9
34,5
Non-agricultural
activity
7,8
10,0
10,9
5,2
Property
0,2
0,5
0,1
0,0
Social services
13,2
11,2
12,4
14,8
Remittances
13,8
9,9
15,4
15,8
Other incomes
4,8
6,7
5,0
3,6
Disposable income,
monthly average
per persons, lei
Including by income sources
,%
Population income (II)
Quarterly evolution
Disposable income, monthly averages per person, lei
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
I_06
II_06
total




III_06
oraşe mari
Total
Big cities
Small towns
villages
IV_06
I_07
oraşe mici
II_07
sate
Expenditures
 Consumption expenditures – totality of expenditures made by a
household for current consumption
 Expenditures are registered at household level
 COICOP classification is used, it provides for 12 major groups
Total consumption expenditures
Cash expenditures
+
In kind expenditures
•Own consumption
•In kind payment
from working places
•Food products
received for free,
different subsidies
Population expenditures (I)
 Average consumption
expenditures per person –
953,3 lei in nominal terms and
846 lei – in real terms
 The highest expenditures are
in urban area, especially in
Chisinau – 1209,9 lei
 The highest share goes for
expenditures for food products
– 44,4%;
 The share of in kind
expenditures out of the total of
consumption expenditures is
17,0%
Total
Big
cities
Small
towns
Villages
953,3
1209,9
961,4
847,2
Food products
44,4
37,9
42,3
48,8
Tobacco, alcohol
drinks
2,7
2,1
1,9
3,4
Clothes and footwear
11,9
11,4
12,0
12,1
Dwelling
maintenance
13,7
11,3
16,0
14,2
Dwelling equipping
4,7
4,8
5,0
4,5
Health
5,3
5,8
4,9
5,1
Transport
5,1
7,4
4,5
4,0
Communications
3,9
5,3
4,7
2,9
Entertainment
2,0
3,7
2,1
1,1
Education
0,4
0,7
0,6
0,2
Hotel, restaurants
etc.
2,6
5,1
2,1
1,3
Other goods and
services
3,4
4,4
4,0
2,5
Consumption
expenditures
including % for:
Population expenditures (II)
Quarterly evolution
Consumption expenditures, monthly average per
person, lei
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
I_06
II_06
total
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


Total
Big cities
Small towns
villages
III_06
orase mari
IV_06
I_07
orase mici
II_07
sate
Social-economic differentiation
2000
50
45
43.8
1600
40
1400
35
1200
30
1000
25
22.5
800
%
1800
lei
 Gini coefficient - 0,36
 Correlation between
the best and the least
ensured population
incomes - 7,1 ori
 The best ensured
population accounts
for 6,2% out of total
country income, and
for the least ensured
– 43,8%
20
16,0
600
400
200
15
11.5
944.2
6.2
485.4
1839.6
670.8
10
5
258.9
0
0
I
II
III
IV
V
average size of incomes, lei per person
share of incomes in total volume of disposable incomes
Poverty indicators (I)
 We use population
expenditures per
adult equivalent for
calculating welfare
indicators
 Total poverty line
accounts for 747 lei,
extreme poverty line
accounts for 404 lei
 Total poverty rate 30,2%, extreme
poverty rate -4,5%
Extreme poverty
line
one adult
another adult
child (<15)
Example
household
two adults
household
two adults
with two adults
and one child
with four adults
and two children
Adult
equivalent
person
Poverty line
404
283
202
747
523
374
1
0.7
0.5
687
889
1252
1091
1270
1643
2316
2017
1.7
2.2
3.1
2.7
40
34.1
35
30.2
30.1
30
25
20.6
20
15
10
5
4.5
3.5
5
4.7
0
total
big cities
total poverty
small towns
villages
extreme poverty
Poverty indicators (II)
Poverty profile. Who are the poor?
 Poverty prevails in rural area – 34,1% as
against 24,8% in urban area
 Persons from big households (5 and more
persons), - poverty rate is 39%
 Persons from households with 3 and more
children, poverty rate 48%
 Persons from households with many
generations – poverty rate 35%
 Farmers’ and pensioners’ households –
poverty rate 42%
Perspectives for future
 Methodological aspects
Revision of consumption expenditures classifier and submission of data
disaggregated at 4 digits level according to COICOP classifier
Getting familiar with EUROSTAT poverty and social exclusion indicators
 Sample framework
Annual rotation of 20% of PSUs
Carrying out the listing on rural areas for adjusting the households’ database
 Data collecting
Shifting towards modern data collecting method – laptop (CAPI)
Development of a set of trainings for interviewers and setting up a network of
professional data collectors
 Results’ dissemination
Placing on NBS web page HBS aggregated database
Statistical booklet “Aspects regarding population living standards, 2006”
Zone seminars with LPA representatives
Thematic round tables for different groups of users
Public awareness about HBS
Comments
Questions
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Thank you for your attention!
Ala Negruţa
Chef of Social and Living Standards Statistics Division
tel: 40 30 78 [email protected]