HBS Results, 2006

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HBS Results, 2006
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• 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

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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, Interviewers
  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

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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

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Households characteristics
Total Big cities Small towns Villages
Total number of households 100,0 15,6 20,6 63,8
Household average size, persons 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
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Income

• Disposable income current revenues from
  different sources
• Incomes are registered at person level, except
  for the incomes related to individual
  agricultural activity

Salaries Own account activities Property
primary
Total incomes
Social services Diverse current transfers,
including remittances Other revenues
secondary
cash incomes in kind incomes
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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
Disposable income, monthly average per persons, lei 839,6 1149,1 811,0 723,8
Including by income sources ,
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
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Population income (II)Quarterly evolution

• Total
• Big cities
• Small towns
• villages

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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

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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
Consumption expenditures 953,3 1209,9 961,4 847,2
including for
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
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Population expenditures (II) Quarterly evolution

• Total
• Big cities
• Small towns
• villages

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Social-economic differentiation

• 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

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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

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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

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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

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Ala NegrutaChef of Social and Living Standards
Statistics Divisiontel 40 30 78
ala.negruta_at_statistica.md

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