The fifth Household Budget Survey is being conducted

The Survey will be conducted during the whole 2020 on a representative sample of about 10.000 randomly selected householders, of which about 5,500 are in the Federation of BiH, 3,250 in the Republika Srpska and 1,200 in the Brčko District.

The mail goal and purpose of the Household Budget Survey is to obtain data on the size and structure of household consumption in BiH, the basic demographic and socio-economic characteristics of their members, housing conditions, sources and size of income, investments, social inclusion, health and a like.

Household consumption surveys are conducted every four or five years in accordance with EUROSTAT international standards and methodological recommendations, which enables international comparability of data. The Household Budget Survey was first conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004 and last one was in 2015.

Due to the importance of this project, statistical institutions ask householders for active cooperation in the implementation of this important survey and guarantee that, in accordance with the laws on statistics and protection of personal data, the answers to the questions will be kept strictly confidential and that the respondents will remain completely anonymous, and that the data collected will be used exclusively for statistical purposes.