BRIEF INTRODUCTION The first aim of this research project is to realize a probabilistic matching among data sets on households’ income, consumption, lifestyle habits and perceived difficulties in their daily life. The Italian National Statistical Institute (ISTAT) releases the following survey data: EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions), HBS (Household Budget Survey) and ADL (Asp...

Estimation of food consumption and nutrient intake is a topic of growing interest. Currently, both in Europe and in Spain, there are numerous sources of information on food consumption, that we provide information on different levels: national, household and individual, all of them are useful, but including some limitations, mainly arising from the lack of accurate data on food purchased but no...

This paper demonstrates the usefulness of nonparametric regression analysis for functional specification of household expenditure functions and equivalence scales without restricting' the class of admissible functional forms, using a Dutch budget survey.

We analyze how residential water consumption is influenced by the of households belonging to same social group (peer effect). Analyses are based on household-level data provided Brazilian Household Budget Survey and use an innovative strategy that estimates spatial dependence while simultaneously controlling for potential sources sample selectivity endogeneity. The our quantile regression model...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the access to medicines by Brazilian families by monetary and non-monetary acquisition data. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study based on data obtained from the 2008/2009 Brazilian Household Budget Survey. The units of assessment were households that participated in the survey and the data on the acquisition of medicines over the 30 days prior to the interviews. T...

Optimal housing selection is one of the most important challenges in housing demand, which most people, especially housing investors, are facing. Although there is an overall agreement on the importance of the budget role on choosing the house, the model that uniquely measures the role and impact of all the factors of investment demand for housing has not been presented and no clear explanation...

The Brazilian public budget for health was R$ 53 billion (approximately U$ 20 billion) in 2003. What share of this total was to treat victims of violence? It is impossible to estimate that proportion directly, due to limitations in the available data. This paper proposes a methodology to estimate the cost of violence for the public health system, using data from the Unified National Health Syst...

Information on fruits and vegetables consumption in Brazil in the three levels of dietary data was analyzed and compared. Data about national supply came from Food Balance Sheets compiled by the FAO; household availability information was obtained from the Brazilian National Household Budget Survey (HBS); and actual intake information came from a large individual dietary intake survey that was ...