Household budget survey
Household budget survey, 1st quarter 2010
June 15, 2010
In the first quarter of 2010, the average available monthly budget per household amounted to 45246 RSD. Of the total available budget, the money receipts make 94.3% and the receipts in kind make 5.7%.
The largest share of money receipts makes the salaries and wages of the employed 46.9% and pensions 36.8%.
The individual consumption expenditures of the households of the Republic of Serbia amounted to 40977 RSD, of which the expenditures for food and beverages make the largest share of 40.9%.
Available budget structure
I In money
Salaries and wages of the employed
- the Republic of Serbia average 44.2%
- Central Serbia (without the City of Belgrade) 39.1%
- Vojvodina 43.7%
- the City of Belgrade 53.5%
Pensions (old-age, family, disablement and other)
- the Republic of Serbia 34.7%
- Central Serbia (without the City of Belgrade) 35.9%
- Vojvodina 33.4%
- the City of Belgrade 33.8%
Customer and investment credits
- the Republic of Serbia 1.9%
Other receipts (savings, insurance premiums, etc.)
- the Republic of Serbia 4.6%
II In kind
Natural consumption
- the Republic of Serbia 5.7%
- Central Serbia (without the City of Belgrade) 9.1%
- Vojvodina 5.1%
- the City of Belgrade 0.8%
Household budget distribution
I Total expenditures
Average monthly expenditures for individual consumption, per a household
- the Republic of Serbia 40977 RSD
- Central Serbia (without the City of Belgrade) 37426 RSD
- Vojvodina 41004 RSD
- the City of Belgrade 48720 RSD
II Consumption expenditures structure
Food and non-alcoholic beverages
- Central Serbia without the City of Belgrade 44.3%
- Vojvodina 37.2%
- the City of Belgrade 38.7%
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels
- Vojvodina 20.0%
- Central Serbia (without the City of Belgrade) 15.6%
- the City of Belgrade 15.7%
Health care
- Central Serbia (without the City of Belgrade) 1420 RSD
- the City of Belgrade 2182 RSD
Communications
- Central Serbia without the City of Belgrade 1339 RSD
- Vojvodina 1630 RSD
- the City of Belgrade 1674 RSD
Other expenditures the Republic of Serbia
- transport 9.2%
- clothing and footwear 5.1%
- household furniture, equipment and maintenance 4.6%
- recreation and culture 3.8%.
In the Communication of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, LP12 (no 161 of June 15, 2010) published are the data obtained through Household Budget Survey, which has been conducted since 2003 according to international standards and recommendations of Eurostat, ILO and UN, thus providing international data comparability. The survey collects the data on income, expenditure and household consumption, i.e. the data on basic elements of individual consumption. Besides, the survey compiles also the data on some important living standard indicators (dwelling conditions, supply with durable consumer goods, etc.), as well as some basic data related to demographic, economic and social features of households.
A survey unit is taken to be every single - or several member household, selected according to the sample plan. A household is: a) a community of persons, whose members live and prepare food together and jointly spend the earned income; b) a single person, living, preparing food and spending the earned income on his/her own.The survey applies the method of the diary keeping (a household keeps a consumption diary for fifteen, i.e. sixteen days), regarding individual consumption of goods and services and the interview method on the basis of questionnaires, where the reference period for durables is twelve months, for semi-durables three months and for earnings, agriculture, hunting and fishing - three months.
In this survey, a two-stage stratified sample is applied, with enumeration districts as primary and households as secondary selection units. The basic geographic stratums are the territories of Central Serbia and Vojvodina. Every fifteen days, 200 households are interviewed, i.e. 4800 households annually.
Of the total number of households envisaged for interview in the first quarter (1200 for the Republic of Serbia), the number of 1151 households (96%) was interviewed.
According to the Eurostat recommendations, balance approach is not applied in the survey (income and expenditure balance); however, applied is the concept of consumption expenditures (individual consumption expenditures), which are classified pursuant to the Classification of individual consumption by purpose (COICOP-HBS).
The value of goods and services for individual consumption is registered, regardless of the fact whether they were purchased for cash money or on credit.
The value of products or services of own production (natural consumption) is registered according to purchase prices.
The published data relate to available and spent budget of individual consumption in the first quarter of 2010 and they present average monthly values per a household, expressed in dinars (RSD).
The data are published for the Republic of Serbia, Central Serbia, Central Serbia (without the City of Belgrade), the City of Belgrade and Vojvodina, for all households.
Starting from 1999 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not at disposal and may not provide available certain data relative to AP Kosovo and Metohia and therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total).
Contact person:
Natasa Mijakovac
Household budget survey and standard unit, Head
Phone: 2412 922, Ext. 242
Email:natasa.mijakovac@stat.gov.rs
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