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Then the interviewer comes back to fill in a digital questionnaire.īetween 19, just over 300 households were interviewed each month from a separate, stand-alone sample. This can be done either on paper or online. They also receive an expenditure logbook in which they write all their expenditure during 15 days (either the first half of a month or the last). Households participating to the survey receive the visit of an interviewer. Collective households like residential care centres are excluded. PopulationĪll private households living in Belgium. For the years where there is no new HBS, the weights are adjusted via a price-update and new representative items can be added via a redistribution of the weights of the higher group level. The next review will take place in January 2020 (base year 2013 = 100) based on the HBS 2018. The choice of representative items and their weights in the basket are deeply reviewed every two years based on the most recent HBS. The survey is also the main source to compile the consumer price index. The purpose of the survey is to create a general framework for the production of "community" statistical information at national and European level on the consumption of households, based on cross-sectional data (amount, composition, etc.) on the items of their budgets. It is an important tool to describe the consumption habits of the population in a year's time, both at Belgian and European level. Household budget survey (HBS) Purpose and brief descriptionĮU-HBS (European Union – Household Budget Survey or HBS) is a survey on consumption expenditure of households. In Flanders it was €36,895, in Wallonia €34,589 and in the Brussels-Capital Region €33,356. In 2020, Belgian households spent on average 35,209 euros, Flemish households 36,447 euros, Walloon households 34,096 euros and households in Brussels 32,057 euros, In 2018, Belgian households spent an average of €35,764. This biennial survey is used, among other things, as input for updating the index basket and for estimating household consumption expenditure in the national accounts. This is what emerged from new figures of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, based on a survey among 6,000 Belgian households. Added to this, 6.7%, or 2,348 euros per year, is spent on the purchase of furniture, domestic appliances and maintenance products and tools for home and garden, etc. The biggest chunk of the budget, 31.8%, goes to housing (rent, water, energy, maintenance and other costs). In 2020, Belgian households spent 18.1% of their budget on food, drinks and tobacco. New results Belgian Household Budget Survey