Bulgarian 1997 Integrated Household Survey

The Bulgarian 1997 Integrated Household Survey (IHS) is a nationally representative, multi-purpose household survey which contains information on a series of subjects including (but not limited to) household composition, education, health, fertility, expenditures, employment and other income earning activities. The primary objective of the survey is to allow detailed analysis of the standard of living of the Bulgarian population in general and of the poor in particular.

The survey is almost identical to the Bulgaria 1995 Integrated Household Survey.  Like the earlier survey, this survey was administered by Gallup International under the auspices of the Bulgarian Ministry of Labor, the Social Affairs and the National Institute of Statistic.  Little documentation for the 1997 survey is available, but interested users can download the documentation from the 1995 survey for additional information.

All data files and available supporting documentation can be downloaded from the site. To obtain the data, first read the sections describing the formats of the data and documentation, then fill in the 'Data Use Agreement Form', and finally download the data and documents.

• Description of Document Formats

  General description of PDF and PostScript formats

• Description of Data Formats

  General description of ASCII, Stata, and SAS portable data formats

• Documentation for the Bulgarian 1997 Integrated Household Survey

  Questionnaires, Codebooks, and other survey documents are available in PDF and PostScript format for downloading.

• Data from the Bulgarian 1997 Integrated Household Survey

  This section provides a description of the data files. If you decide to download the data, you will need to first fill out the data agreement form found in this section.

Revised 07/24/02