Household Expenditure and Income Data for Transitional Economies 1993-1998

Armenia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, 1993 - 1998

Get Microdata

Reference ID

ECA_1998_HEIDE_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/2jbf-rx21

Producer(s)

Branko L. Milanovic

Collection(s)

Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Apr 01, 2011

Last modified

Apr 27, 2021

Page views

145032

Downloads

7021

Identification

Survey ID number

ECA_1998_HEIDE_v01_M

Title

Household Expenditure and Income Data for Transitional Economies 1993-1998

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Armenia	ARM
Bulgaria	BGR
Estonia	EST
Hungary	HUN
Kyrgyz Republic	KGZ
Latvia	LVA
Poland	POL
Russian Federation	RUS
Slovak Republic	SVK

Study type

Macroeconomics - Indicators

Abstract

The startling drop in incomes and increase in inequality accompanying the transition to market economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union raise critical questions: Who is most likely to be poor? How well are existing social assistance programs reaching those who most need help? And what kind of programs would be most effective in reducing poverty? As part of a project analyzing poverty and social assistance in the transition economies, a Bank research team created a database of household expenditure and income data from recent surveys - the HEIDE database. (See the book by J. Braithwaite, Ch. Grootaert and B. Milanovic, "Poverty and social assistance in Transition Countries, St. Martin's Press, 1999" and the book by B. Milanovic, Income, inequality, and poverty during the transition from planned to market economy, World Bank, 1998.)

The HEIDE database includes four countries in both Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Latvia was then added at a later stage.

The four files are:
-hhold: Household data consists of the variables in Variable List at household level.
-ind: Individual data consists of the variables in Variable List at individual level.
-modelh: Household data consists of the variables used in regression models.
-modeli: Individual data consists of the variables used in regression models.

Prefixes are used to indicate countries for the data files, i.e.
A- Rural Armenia
B- Bulgaria
E- Estonia
H- Hungary
K- Kyrgyz
P- Poland
R- Russia
S- Slovak
Y- Urban Armenia

The survey data were cleaned for possible inconsistencies and errors and adjusted for missing data and outliers. The compilation of almost 100 variables with similar definitions for the eight countries allows ready cross-country analysis and comparisons. A consistent syntax is used for the variables to enable researchers to use the same macro routines across countries. There are more than 3 million data points.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Scope

Notes

The scope of ECA 1998 HEIDE includes:

Demographic information
Education
Assets
Income
Expenditure

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The database includes data from Armenia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and the Slovak Republic.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Branko L. Milanovic	World Bank

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End	Cycle
1994	1994	Armenia
1995	1995	Bulgaria
1995	1995	Estonia
1993	1993	Hungary
1993	1993	Kyrgyz Republic
1997	1998	Latvia
1993	1993	Poland
1993	1994	Russia
1993	1993	Slovak Republic

Time periods

Start date	End date	Cycle
1994	1994	Armenia
1995	1995	Bulgaria
1995	1995	Estonia
1993	1993	Hungary
1993	1993	Kyrgyz republic
1997	1998	Latvia
1993	1993	Poland
1993	1994	Russia
1993	1993	Slovak Republic

Data processing

Data Editing

The survey data were cleaned for possible inconsistencies and errors and adjusted for missing data and outliers. The compilation of almost 100 variables with similar definitions for the eight countries allows ready cross-country analysis and comparisons.

See document "Household Expenditure and Income Data for Transitional Economies (HEIDE): Data Cleaning and Rent Imputation - Appendix 1 of RAD project "Poverty and Targeting of Social Assistance in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union"".

Data Access

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 acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

Branko L. Milanovic, World Bank. Household Expenditure and Income Data for Transitional Economies (HEIDE) 1993-1998. Ref. ECA_1998_HEIDE_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://microdata.worldbank.org 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
Development Research Group	World Bank	research@worldbank.org	http://go.worldbank.org/B9W4QTDHR0

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ECA_1998_HEIDE_v02_M

Date of Metadata Production

2010-09-07

Metadata version

DDI Document version

DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/27/21)
This version is identical to DDI_ECA_1998_HEIDE_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.