Household Living Conditions Survey 2002 - Ukraine

Abstract
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The Household Living Conditions Survey has been carried out annually since 1999 by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine (formerly the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine). The survey is based on generally accepted international standards and depicts social and demographic situation in Ukraine.

Geographic coverage
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National

Analysis unit
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- Households,
- Individuals.

Universe
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Whole country, all private households. The survey does not cover collective households, foreigners temporarily living in Ukraine as well as the homeless.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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The HLCS uses the following survey tools:

1) Main interviews

Main interview questionnaires collect general data on households, such as household composition, housing facilities, availability and use of land plots, cattle and poultry, characteristics of household members: anthropometric data, education, employment status. Interviewing of households takes place at the survey commencement stage. In addition, while interviewing, the interviewer completes a household composition check card to trace any changes during the entire survey period.

2) Observation of household expenditures and incomes

For the observation, two tools are used:
- Weekly diary of current expenditures. It is completed directly by a household twice a quarter. In the diary respondents (households) record all daily expenditures in details (e.g. for purchased foodstuffs - product description, its weight and value, and place of purchase). In addition, a household puts into the diary information on consumption of products produced in private subsidiary farming or received as a gift.

Households are evenly distributed among rotation groups, who complete diaries in different week days of every quarter. Assuming that the two weeks data are intrinsic for the entire quarter, the single time period of data processing (quarter) is formed by means of multiplying diary data by ratio 6.5 (number of weeks in a quarter divided on the number of weeks when diary records were made). Inclusion of foodstuffs for long-time consumption is done based on quarterly interview data.

- Quarterly questionnaire. It is used to interview households in the first month following the reporting quarter. Researchers collect data on large and irregular expenditures, in particular those relating to the purchase of foodstuffs for long-time consumption (e.g. sacks, etc.), and also data on household incomes. Since recalling all incomes and expenditures made in a quarter is uneasy, households make records during a quarter in a special quarterly expenditures log.

The major areas for quarterly observation are the following:
- structure of consumer financial expenditures for goods and services;
- structure of other expenditures (material aid to other households, expenditures for private subsidiary farming, purchase of real estate, construction and major repair of housing facilities and outbuildings, accumulating savings, etc);
- importance of private subsidiary farming for household welfare level (receipt and use of products from private subsidiary farming for own consumption, financial income from sales of such products, etc.);
- structure of income and other financial sources of a household. We separately study the income of every individual household member (remuneration of labor, pension, scholarship, welfare, etc.) and the income in form payments to a household as a whole (subsidies for children, aid of relatives and other persons, income from - sales of real estate and property, housing and utility subsidies, use of savings, etc.).

3) Single-time topical interviews

Single-time topical interviews questionnaires are used quarterly and cover the following topics:
- household expenditures for construction and repair of housing facilities and outbuilding
- availability of durable goods in a household
- assessment by households members of own health and accessibility of selected medical services
- self-assessment by a household of adequacy of its income
- household's access to Internet

摘要
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乌克兰国家统计服务局（前身为乌克兰国家统计委员会）自1999年起每年进行《家庭生活状况调查》。该调查基于国际上普遍认可的标准，描绘了乌克兰的社会和人口状况。

地理覆盖范围
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全国

分析单位
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- 家庭,
- 个人。

调查范围
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整个国家，所有私人家庭。调查不包括集体家庭、在乌克兰临时居住的外国人以及无家可归者。

数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]

数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]

研究工具
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家庭生活状况调查（HLCS）采用以下调查工具：
1) 主要访谈
主要访谈问卷收集有关家庭的一般数据，例如家庭构成、住房设施、土地地块的可用性和使用情况、牲畜和家禽、家庭成员特征：体质数据、教育、就业状况。家庭访谈在调查开始阶段进行。此外，在访谈过程中，访谈员完成家庭构成检查卡，以追踪整个调查期间的变化。
2) 家庭支出和收入的观察
观察使用以下两种工具：
- 每周支出日记。家庭每季度直接填写两次。日记中，受访者（家庭）详细记录所有日常支出（例如，购买的食品——产品描述、重量和价值、购买地点）。此外，家庭将自产副业或作为礼物收到的产品消费信息也记录在日记中。
家庭被均匀分配到轮换组中，他们在每个季度的不同工作日填写日记。假设两周的数据是整个季度的内在特征，通过将日记数据乘以6.5的比率（季度中的周数除以记录日记的周数）形成单个数据处理的时期间隔（季度）。长期消费食品的纳入基于季度访谈数据。
- 季度问卷。用于在报告季度后的第一个月对家庭进行访谈。研究人员收集有关大额和不规则支出（尤其是长期消费食品的购买，例如袋装等）和家庭收入的数据。由于回忆整个季度的所有收入和支出很困难，家庭在季度内填写专门的季度支出日志。
季度观察的主要领域包括以下内容：
- 商品和服务消费者财务支出的结构；
- 其他支出的结构（对其他家庭的物质援助、自产副业的支出、房地产的购买、住房设施和附属建筑的建造和主要维修、储蓄积累等）；
- 私人副业对家庭福利水平的重要性（自产副业产品的消费和销售所得，等）；
- 家庭收入和其他财务来源的结构。我们分别研究每个家庭成员的收入（劳动报酬、养老金、奖学金、福利等）以及以家庭整体支付的形式的收入（儿童补贴、亲戚和其他人的援助、房地产和财产的销售所得、住房和服务补贴、储蓄的使用等）。
3) 单次专题访谈
单次专题访谈问卷每季度使用一次，涵盖以下主题：
- 家庭对住房设施和附属建筑的建设和维修支出；
- 家庭耐用消费品的可用性；
- 家庭成员对自身健康状况和选定医疗服务的可及性的评估；
- 家庭对自己收入充足性的自我评估；
- 家庭对互联网的接入。