Listed in the tables are data from the sample survey of household budgets. The household - i.e. the number of persons living together and on common budget - constitutes both the reporting and sample unit. The core of the households is a family, as a rule, but it can also be an individual. Households (respondents) included in household budget statistics are now sampled by the method of purposive quota sampling.

There are two types of samples used:

1. Basic reporting sample which ensured representative results for social groups in the Czech Republic. The frequency of individual groups of households according to sampling characteristics is determined with reference to results from the sample survey on the money income of the population (microcensus). The following sampling characteristics were used to select the households:

1. Social group of households, which is determined according to which social group the head of household belongs to, irrespective of whether or not another economically active member of the household belongs to the same or different social group. Where the household is constituted by a two-parent family (husband, wife, other members), the husband is always the head of household, whereas an economically active parent is the head of household in lone-parent families. An economically inactive parent can become the head of household provided that the children are also economically inactive. In other cases an economically active child is the head of household. In non-family households, the head of household is always the person with the highest income. Where a household embraces two or more families, the position of persons in the head of individual families is taken account of: preference is always given to an economically active person and, with the same degree of economic activity, two-parent family is preferred to lone-parent one. If these criteria cannot be applied, the person with the highest income is set as the head of household.

Measured were the social groups of:
• employees: persons having a contract of employment, who do manual work in the area of production, transport, services, etc. (manual workers) or intellectual work at all levels such as managerial, conceptual and scientific, operational, technical, services (other employees);
• self-employed persons: persons having no contract of employment, but are engaged in business (except for agriculture), work freelance or work for fees;
• farmers: persons who are engaged in agricultural production and are either members of and work for an agricultural cooperative or are engaged in agricultural production in enterprises of any kind or are self-employed in agriculture production;
• pensioners: pension recipients who do not work at all or whose economic activity is restricted (their annual income from gainful activity is not allowed to exceed CZK 12 000; this restriction also applies to other members of the household).

The results for the social groups were supplemented with an estimate of data on an “average reporting household”. To eliminate disproportion in the representation of the individual social groups in the basic reporting sample, the data for the respective groups were re-weighted with reference to the social structure of households established in microcensus. The households of pensioners with economically active members and the households of the unemployed, which are not measured in household budgets statistics, were attached for the calculation of weights to the households of manual workers.

c Number of unprovided-for children in households of economically active persons or the number and sex of members in households of economically inactive pensioners.

2. Supplementary sample which comprised families with children, living just at subsistence level. An appropriate number of these families were represented in the basic sample, too. For separate processing, however, they would be too low in number.


Methodology and definitions of key indicators

Number of equivalencies refers to the composition of household derived from weights of consumption of individual members in the household. The weights are defined by the OECD scale as follows: first adult in the household = 1.0, every other adult (over 13 of age) = 0.7, every child (aged 13 or less) = 0.5.

Money income, total is gross money income. It includes income tax and social and health insurance contributions and excludes loans and deposits withdrawn.

For households of the self-employed, the money income includes amounts transferred by these persons from profits of their businesses to satisfy the needs of their households and members of the households. It is comparable to the income of the households of other social groups at the level of the so-called net income only (excluding income tax and contributions to health and social insurance schemes). For most of the self-employed, tax burden of their households is not fully covered, because contributions to health and social insurance schemes are part of their bookkeeping and are not reported in household budgets statistics. Income tax is included in household budgets statistics only if it is paid from funds of the household.

Income from work refers to incomes from work activities carried out in the framework of employment, service and membership relationships or incomes from business or any other independent gainful activities; such incomes are referred to as incomes from main activity, if the activity is the main source of the worker’s income.

To ensure international comparability of the statistical indicators, the items of money expenditure relating to 1999 and subsequent years were re-arranged to comply with the national version (CZ-COICOP) of the international Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose, COICOP (see the statistical classifications in force listed in the introduction of this book), which is obligatory for all statistical surveys. According to this classification, the individual (final) consumption includes neither expenditure on the purchase, building and reconstruction of houses and dwellings nor expenditure on kitchen gardens and domestic animals (not pets), which is why these were placed under a separate other expenditure item not included in final consumption.

Money expenditure, total includes neither deposits nor repayments of loans.

The individual expenditure items are the following:

• housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels: rental, supplies and services for routine maintenance of the house or dwelling, central heating and hot water, electricity, gas and other fuels, and other services related to the dwelling;
• furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenance of the house: furniture, fixtures, floor coverings, household textile, household devices and appliances (refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances), dishes and utensils, tools and equipment for house and garden, detergents, cleaners and other chemist’s goods, other supplies for households, repairs of machines and equipment, services for households;
• recreation and culture: equipment and supplies for leisure (TV sets, videos, radio receivers, audio equipment, cameras, personal computers and data processing equipment, typewriters), goods for leisure (musical instruments, LPs, CDs, DVDs, audiocassettes, videocassettes, other small goods of cultural nature, games, toys), repairs of all equipment, devices and instruments; books and textbooks, newspapers and periodicals, other printed matters, drawing and writing supplies; flowers and gardens, pets; supplies and services for keeping pets; package holidays, goods for recreation; sports and sports goods; services for leisure (cultural and entertainment services, radio and television, gaming clubs and lotteries);
• miscellaneous goods and services: personal care (hairdresser’s salons, beauty parlours, other personal care establishments, personal care supplies and devices, chemist’s products for personal hygiene, cosmetic goods), things for personal use and accessories (jewels, clocks, watches, artificial jewellery, travelling articles), social care expenditure, all types of insurance, and services n.e.c. (financial, administrative, advisory, etc.).

The coverage of the other items is evident from their names.

Table 9-1 lists data on an average household of the basic reporting sample in the years 2000-2004.

Tables 9-2 and 9-3 show data on the basic reporting sample, broken down by social group; the data are supplemented with estimates for an average household.

Tables 9-4 to 9-5 show statistics on the supplementary and basic reporting samples of households whose net incomes did not exceed 1.4 multiple of the subsistence level calculated from rates in force for a given household (see the table in the introduction to Chapter 24. Social Security, showing subsistence level amounts).

The term two-parent nuclear family refers to a family consisting of a married couple and unprovided-for child/children, in which neither other relatives nor economically active child/children live.

The term lone-parent nuclear family refers to a family consisting of a single parent and unprovided-for child/children, in which neither other relatives nor economically active child/children live.

Table 9-6 presents figures related to the basic sample of household budgets statistics, broken down by net money income per household member per year. Each social group in low income brackets includes 20% of households with the lowest net money income per 1 household member. The net money income of each of the households classified to this group did not exceed the upper net income limit shown in the table. The group of high-income households also included 20% of households with the highest net money income per 1 household member in each social group, the net money income of these households being above the lower limit shown in the table.


Table 9-7. Per capita consumption of the most important kinds of food

The consumption is calculated by balancing, from figures on industrial production, self-supplies, initial and final stocks, imports and exports. These data are taken from statistical questionnaires monitored by the CZSO, food unions, some external trade organizations, and other institutions. The table shows average annual consumption per capita (with reference to mid-year population).


Table 9-8. Per capita consumption of selected basic kinds of manufactured goods

The consumption figures are derived by a balancing method from data on production, stocks, imports and exports. The data are obtained from statistical questionnaires monitored by the CZSO, manufacturers and external trade organizations. The consumption of gas is calculated from data provided by Czech gas enterprises and the consumption of electricity from data provided by the distributors.


Table 9-9. Consumer durables in households

The figures on consumer durables in households are derived from figures on production, stocks, imports and exports, by cumulating annual increments and taking account of the service life (determined by the Research Institute of Trade) or wear and tear of the durables. The figures on cars and motorcycles are calculated from information provided by the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic and those on telephones are based on data provided by ČESKÝ TELECOM a. s. and mobile network operators.

The individual figures appearing in this chapter are comparable with the data published in the statistical yearbooks of previous years.

- “Household Incomes, Expenditures and Consumption as Measured by Household Budget Statistics” (Czech-English) – (Part I - June, Part II - July, Part III - August)

Part I: Social Groups, Income Brackets

1. Households by social group (households in total; households of employees, of self-employed persons, of farmers, and of pensioners)
2. Quantile distribution of households
   • decile distribution (households in total)
   • pentile distribution (households in total; households of employees, of self-employed-persons, and of pensioners)

1. Households of employees with unprovided-for children, by number of children and by economically active members (households with children in total, two-parent nuclear families in total, of which with 1 child or 2 children and with 1 or 2 economically active members and with three children in total; lone-parent nuclear families in total and of which with 1 child)
2. Households of employees without unprovided-for children and households of pensioners, by number of members and by sex (households of employees in total, of which single-member and two-member households; households of pensioners in total, of which single-member households by sex and two-member households)

Part III: Households on Minimum Income

1. Minimum income families with children, by type of households (families with children in total; two-parent nuclear families in total, of which with 1 child or 2 children in total, with 2 children and 1 economically active member, and with 3 children in total; lone-parent nuclear families in total, of which with 1 child and with 2 children)
2. Households of employees with unprovided-for children and minimum income families with children
3. Households of employees with unprovided-for children and minimum income families with children, by type of dwelling (rented dwelling, cooperative dwelling, own house).
   • "Příjmy, vydání a spotřeba domácností podle statistiky rodinných účtů“ – quarterly, 85th calendar day following the end of quarter.
   • “Food Consumption 2004” (Czech-English) – November 2005.