CONTENTS
       1.1  Official Launch and conduct of the Household Budget Survey 
       1.2 Historical Perspective
       1.3 General Framework of the 2008 09 HBS
       1.4 Conceptual and Technical Basis
       1.5 Innovations and Improvements used in 2008 09 HBS
       1.6 HBS Timeline
       1.7 HBS Stakeholders Committee
       2.1 Objectives of the HBS
       2.2 Survey Subject
       2.3 Coverage
       2.4 Respondents
       2.5 Consumption Expenditure
       2.6 Measurement of consumption Expenditure
       2.7 Nomenclature - new
       2.8 Data collection
       2.9 Location of Selected Households
       2.10 Reference Periods
       3.1 Cabinet Approval
       3.2 HBS Unit
       3.3 Budget and funding
       3.4 Pilot Test
       3.5 Recruitment of Field and Processing Staff
       3.6 Training
       3.7 Publicity
       3.8 Tokens
       3.9 Quality Control Field Operation
       3.10 Workload Preparation and Distribution
       3.11 Receipt and Evaluation of Fieldwork
       3.12 Fieldwork
       3.13 Duties and Responsibilities of Field Supervisor
       3.14 Duties and Responsibilities of HBS Enumerators
       3.15 Printing of Questionnaires
       4.1 Questionnaire Design, Content and Layout
       4.2 Development of 2008-09 HBS Questionnaires
       4.3 Household Questionnaire HBS 1
       4.4 Individual Questionnaire HBS2
       4.5 Diary HBS3
       4.6 Main Food Purchase Form HBS4
       4.7 Supplementary Form - Other Social Programmes HBS5
       5.1 Sample Frame
       5.2 Income Area
       5.3 Sample Size
       5.4 Sample Design and Selections by Region
       5.5 Substitution
       6.1 Errors in Surveys
       6.2 Non Response Rate
       6.3 Standard Errors and Design Effects
       7.1 Spender
       7.2 Expenditure
       7.3 Disbursements
       7.4 Income
       7.5 Sources of Household Income
       7.6 Household Receipts
       7.7 Gifts
       7.8 Home Produced Food
       7.9 Area purchased or paid
       7.10 Person who paid for the Item
       7.11 Method of Payment
       7.12 Type of Outlet
       7.13 Urban-Rural Definition
       7.14 Imputed Rent
       7.15 Other Concepts and Definition
       8.1 Introduction
       8.2 HBS Processing System
       8.3 Image Capture System
       8.4 Intelligent Classification and Coding Systems
       8.5 Hardware used
       8.6 Processing Staff
       8.7 Number of Documents Processed
       8.8 Main Processing Activities
       8.9 Gross Imputed Rent
       8.10 Other Processing Activities
       9.1 Problems Encountered
       9.2 Recommendations for improvements
       1.1 Official Launch and Conduct of the Household Budget Survey
       The 2008/09 Household Budget Survey (HBS) was officially launched by the Minister of
       Planning, Housing and the Environment, Dr. the Honourable Emily Dick-Forde on Friday 2nd
       May 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. 
       The fieldwork for the HBS commenced on Sunday 4th May 2008 and was completed on 30th
       April 2009 with an  initial sample size of 7, 680 households however due to non-response by
       households the realized sample size was 7, 090 with an overall non-response rate of 7.7%. The
       Household Budget Survey (HBS) sample comprised twelve (12) monthly representative sub-
       samples which were further divided into twenty-four fortnights or periods of enumeration spread
       across twelve (12) months to take into account the effects of seasonality on expenditure patterns.