| Country |
Czechoslovakia/Czech (CR)
and Slovak (SR) Republics |
Hungary | Hungary | Poland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of survey | Microcensus | Household Income Survey | Household Panel Survey | Household Budget Survey |
| Year of survey examined | 1980, 1984, 1988 Czechoslovakia; 1992 CR and SR, separately | 1983, 1987 | 1992 | 1987, 1990, 1992 |
| Frequency | every 3 to 5 years | every 5 years | annually | quarterly/annually |
| Household sample size |
102,637 Czechoslovakia;
15,677 CR; 15,221 SR |
14,790 | 2,059 | 10,800 |
| Population coverage | Noninstitutional population living in households; persons absent for longer than 6 months excluded in 1992 | Noninstitutional populations living in private households, including self-employed | All individuals with a noninstitutional address | Noninstitutional population, excluding nonfarm self- employed, police, military, Communist Party administration |
| Sample design | Two-stage stratified sample from the population census, stratified by size of locality and by number of flats within the census tract | Drawn from "uniform system of household surveys," a disproportionate random sample of 1980 census tracts | Four-stage stratification from 1990 census, with additional sub-sample for Budapest. | Two-stage, two-phase rotation sampling |
| Reference person | Head of household, defined as male if complete family, parent if incomplete | Head of household | Head of household, defined as oldest active male; if no active members, head is oldest male | Head of household, defined as person whose income is major source of livelihood for household |
| Primary unit of collection | Economic/consumer household is observational unit, while address is sample unit; all households at address included in sample; persons are asked to declare whether they are members of a common household. | Economic/consumer household is observational unit, while address is sample unit; all households at address included in sample; households are all persons living together who share a common budget. | Economic/consumer household is observational unit, while address is sample unit; household is defined to be all persons living under the same roof, sharing income and expenditures. | Economic/consumer unit (identified as a household); if not a single person, then a group of persons living together who share a household budget. |
| Non-response rates | In 1993, nonresponse rate was 15.7 percent in CR, 7 percent in SR. | Total nonresponse rate was 3 percent. | Nonresponse rate was 17 percent. | Nonresponse rate was 30.9 percent of households selected to participate for the first time in 1992. |