The Statistical Office announces the launch of the Family Budget Survey 2023 on 3 April 2023. The use of the wealth of results of the Survey, both as a necessary component for the compilation of official national and European statistics and as a reliable tool for socio-economic analyses by the scientific community and for informing the general public, makes it one of the most important surveys of the Agency.
The Survey is conducted according to the recommendations and methodologies of the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), in order to measure the structure of household expenditure so that:
- in the context of the Consumer Price Index (which determines the level of the price index) to revise the representative goods and services that make up the "household basket", as well as the weighting factors that give the relative importance of each good and service,
- to update the private consumption figures for the system of national accounts,
- to analyse the level and distribution of household expenditure and income by source of income and by different socio-economic and demographic groups,
- to study the standard of living of the population by compiling various socio-economic indicators.
The Survey will cover 4,800 households in urban and rural areas of Cyprus.
Data collection and recording will be carried out by specially trained census enumerators, with personal interviews in households, using portable computers. In addition, the census enumerators have been trained in completing relevant diaries to record the daily expenditure of households for a period of two weeks. Census enumerators will carry a special Statistical Service ID card, which will certify that they have been authorised to collect the data.
Data collection will be spread evenly over a 12-month period from April 2023 to March 2024, with visits to approximately 240 households every 18 days. In this way, data representing the purchasing trends and habits of households throughout the year will be collected, so as to take into account purchases made seasonally.
The Survey is conducted in accordance with the Official Statistics Act 2021 (Law 25(I)/2021). Under the provisions of the Act, the provision of the data is mandatory. The Statistical Office is obliged to keep the data collected as CONFIDENTIAL. The responses will be used solely for statistical purposes and no one, neither public authority nor private individual, will have knowledge of the individual data.
The success and reliability of the survey relies on the cooperation of the public. For this reason, the Statistical Office makes a strong appeal to the households randomly selected in the sample to cooperate with the visiting census enumerators and provide all information requested.
For further information, the public can contact the survey officers in charge of the survey at 22602157 and 22605113.
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