Multitopic Household Survey 2003

Bulgaria, 2003

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Reference ID

BGR_2003_MTHS_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/d9g2-v581

Producer(s)

National Statistical Institute (NSI)

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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May 27, 2015

Last modified

Jan 30, 2020

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Identification

Survey ID number

BGR_2003_MTHS_v01_M

Title

Multitopic Household Survey 2003

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Bulgaria	BGR

Study type

Living Standards Measurement Study [hh/lsms]

Series Information

This is the fourth living standards measuring survey conducted in Bulgaria. The first Integrated Household Survey (IHS) was conducted in 1995 on a sample of approximately 2,500 households. The second round was conducted in 1997 on the 1995 sample and the third IHS was conducted in 2001. From 2003, the study is known as Multitopic Household Survey (MTHS).

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

- Households
- Individuals

Version

Version Description

v01

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The sample is nationally representative.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
National Statistical Institute (NSI)	Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

Producers

Name	Role
The World Bank	Technical assistance

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The originally planned sample size was 3715 ordinary households.

Response Rate

Due to drop-outs, refusal and absence from home, the final number of interviewed households was 3023.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2003-10-15	2003-11-15

Access policy

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

National Statistical Institute. Bulgaria Multitopic Household Survey (MTHS) 2003, Ref. BGR_2003_MTHS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
LSMS Data Manager	The World Bank	lsms@worldbank.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_BGR_2003_MTHS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank	Generation of DDI documentation

Date of Metadata Production

2010-06-17

Metadata version

DDI Document version

- Version 01 (June 2010)

- Version 02 (May 2015)

In v02 variable labels and variable categories labels were added to datasets (except bg03exp and bg03inc datasets, which were labeled previously).

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