Documentation for the Bulgarian 1995 Integrated Household Survey

In order to use the data from the Bulgarian 1995 Integrated Household Survey, it is necessary to download supporting documentation, which includes the household questionnaire, list of variable labels, interviewer's manual, a brief overview of the survey, and some miscellaneous files. Also available for downloading is a file of summary statistics for the core data files.

The materials which have little formatting are available only as ASCII files. The more heavily formatted documents are available in both Postscript and PDF format. If you do not know whether you prefer PDF to PostScript, return to the page on Document Formats for a description of these formats.

DECRG has posted all materials regarding the Bulgarian 1995 Integrated Household Survey which we have. Below is a brief description of each of the documents along with the links to download them.

Household Questionnaire

• The most important document for use of the data is the questionnaire. The questionnaire contains, with limited exception, all response codes. The questionnaire also contains all the skip codes, which are essential for properly interpreting blank values. As the questionnaire is heavily formatted, it is available below in four formats.

Interviewer's Manual

• The Interviewer's Manual contains instructions and rules for the interviewers. This includes instructions on how to define household members, and rules for which individuals should answer the different questions. It is available below in PDF, PostScript, and ASCII.

Four Other Documents

1. The Codebook of Variable Labels and Label Values contains four items of information for each variable in the core data files.

• Variable Name--Every variable has a name which can be up to eight characters in length.
• Variable Label--Variable labels are up to 30 characters in length. They are more descriptive, but do not exist for all variables.
• Label Name--Some variables are assigned labels to help interpret response codes. For instance, the variable named gender is assigned a label which matches the numeric responses to male or female.
• Label Codes or Values--These are the code values for the label names.

2. The file of Summary Statistics contains summary data on each of the variables in the core data files. If a variable takes on nine or fewer unique values, then a tabulation of the values is presented. If more than nine, then information on the distribution of values is presented (e.g. minimum, median, maximum, etc.).

3. A general Overview of the survey is also available in ASCII format. This document contains information on the organization and managament of the survey, as well as some information on the sample and questionnaire design.

4. Also available are some Miscellaneous files, which have been compressed into one file called bg95misc.zip. Included in this one file are the following files:

• Coremap.txt--An ASCII file which maps the core data files to sections in the questionnaire. (This information is also available in the data section of this site. See core data files.)
• Suplmap.txt--An ASCII file which briefly describes the supplemental data files. (This document is also available in the data section of this site. See supplemental data files.)
• Consmap.txt--An ASCII file which maps constructed data files to the programs which created them. This file also explains the contents of consdo.zip. This file is only needed if the constructed data files are downloaded. See the comment on this in the data section.
• Consdo.zip--A compressed file containing the numerous Stata program files used to create the constructed data. Also included in this file is exp_inc.txt, a brief note providing an overview of how income and expenditure were calculated. This file is only needed if the constructed data files are downloaded. See the comment on this in the data section.

Revised 07/24/02