Household Budget Survey |17 February 2007
She said that 280 more households are expected to be visited over the next 10 to 12 weeks. “More than 75 percent of the target sample of households has already been interviewed for the purpose of the survey. However, a number of households that have been visited have sometimes been reluctant to participate and others have not been completing the diaries that the officers leave with them to record their expenditures on time,” the spokesperson said.
In order for the exercise to be successful, the NSB requires the full cooperation of the households selected.
It is important for those chosen to provide all the data requested of their households, so that meaningful estimates may be derived for the country as a whole.
The results of the survey will be presented in the form of statistical tables so that information of individual households will not be divulged, and all data collected will be treated with strict confidentiality.
The NSB has once more appealed to the households that have been selected to give the statistical officers their full cooperation to facilitate this important exercise.
“The bureau also takes the opportunity to thank the public for their continued assistance,” the officer said, adding that data collected will allow the NSB to establish the current patterns of household spending in the country and improve the measurement of inflation.
This will be done by revising the current “basket of good and services” and their “weights” so as to better reflect the movement in prices of these goods and services which constitute a representative basket for households.