6503.0 - Household Expenditure Survey and Survey of Income and Housing: User Guide, 2003-04

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PART 1 CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS

CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS

Part 1 of this User Guide describes the concepts and definitions used in the 2003-04 Household Expenditure Survey (HES) and 2003-04 Survey of Income and Housing (SIH) including:

the data items of income, expenditure and wealth, or net worth
summary statistics such as the Gini coefficient
the units of analysis supported by the surveys, that is, households, income units and persons.

Definitions of words and expressions used in describing these surveys and their data are provided in the Glossary.

Changes to concepts and definitions introduced in 2003-04 are described in Part 4 'Changes from previous surveys'.

This section contains the following subsection :
1.1 Gross, Disposable and Final Income
1.2 Current, Annual and Weekly Income
1.3 Equivalised Household Income
1.4 Components of Income
1.5 Low Income Households
1.6 Gini Coefficient and Other Measures of Income Distribution
1.7 Expenditure
1.8 Relationship Between Recorded Expenditure and Income
1.9 Wealth or Net Worth
1.10 Household, Income Unit and Person Data
1.11 Reference Person
1.12 Housing Statistics
1.13 Deprivation and Financial Stress Indicators