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

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PART 2 SURVEY METHODOLOGY

SURVEY METHODOLOGY

Part 2 of this User Guide describes the methodology used for the 2003-04 Household Expenditure Survey (HES) and 2003-04 Survey of Income and Housing (SIH), including:

information about the scope, coverage and samples
data collection and processing
benchmarks and weighting
estimates and reliability of estimates.

Changes to survey methodology in 2003-04 are described in Part 4 Changes from previous surveys.

This section contains the following subsection :
2.1 Scope and Coverage
2.2 Selected Samples and Final Samples
2.3 Data Collection and Data Item Description
2.4 Data Processing
2.5 Income Tax and Other Modelled Data Items
2.6 Benchmarks and Weighting of Survey Results
2.7 Calculation of Population Counts, Means, Medians and Other Estimates
2.8 Reliability of Estimates