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The Statistical Service of
Cyprus (CYSTAT) is launching the Household Budget Survey 2023 on the 3rd
of April 2023. The utilization of the plethora of the results of the Survey,
both as a necessary component for the compilation of national and European
official statistics and as a reliable tool for socio-economic analyses by the
scientific community, as well as for informing the general public, makes it
one of the most important surveys of the Service.
The Survey is conducted
according to the recommendations and methodologies of the Statistical Service
of the EU (Eurostat), in order to analyze the structure of household
expenditure so as:
- to
revise the goods and services included in the so-called "shopping
basket" of the household in the context of the Consumer Price Index
(which determines the inflation rate), as well as to revise the weights
that determine the relative importance of each good and service,
- to
update the figures relating to the private consumption for national
accounts purposes,
- to
study the distribution of household expenditure and income by source of
income and various socio-economic and demographic characteristics,
- to
study the standard of living of the population through the compilation
of various socio-economic indicators.
The Survey will cover 4.800
households in the urban and rural areas of Cyprus.
The collection and recording of
the data will be carried out by specially trained enumerators, through
personal computer-assisted interviews at each household’s premises. In
addition, the enumerators have been trained in the completion of specific
diaries, for recording the household daily expenses over a period of two
weeks. All enumerators will bear a special identity card, which will certify
their authorization to collect the relevant information.
The data collection phase will
be spread evenly over a period of 12 months, from April 2023 to March 2024
and every 18 days the enumerators will be visiting approximately 240
households in total. In this way, the data collected will reflect the consumption
trends and habits of the households throughout the year, taking seasonality
patterns into account.
The Survey is conducted in
accordance with the Official Statistics Law of 2021 (Law No. 25(I)/2021).
Based on the provisions of the Law, it is mandatory to provide the data
requested. The Statistical Service is obliged to treat all the information
collected as CONFIDENTIAL.
The data collected will be used solely for statistical purposes. The
individual data of the households will not be disclosed to any public
authority or person.
The success and credibility of
the Survey depends on the cooperation of the public; therefore, the
Statistical Service urges all households which have been randomly selected to
take part in the Survey, to cooperate with the enumerators who will be
visiting them and provide all the information requested.
For further enquiries, the
households may contact the officers responsible for the survey at the
telephone numbers 22602157 and 22605113.
(EP/ECHR)
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