The Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF): description and methods of the 2020 wave

Piluca Alvargonzález, Marina Asensio, Cristina Barceló, Olympia Bover (), Lucía Cobreros, Laura Crespo, Najiba El Amrani, Sandra García-Uribe, Carlos Gento, Marina Gómez, Paloma Urcelay, Ernesto Villanueva and Elena Vozmediano
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Piluca Alvargonzález: BEWAY
Marina Asensio: AFI
Cristina Barceló: Banco de España
Lucía Cobreros: ESADE
Laura Crespo: Banco de España
Najiba El Amrani: Fundación Bofill
Carlos Gento: Banco de España
Marina Gómez: Banco de España
Elena Vozmediano: Banco de España

No 2405, Occasional Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: The Spanish Survey of Household Finances 2020 (EFF2020) provides detailed information on the income, assets, debt and spending of Spanish households as at end-2020. Given the lack of alternative statistical sources that provide detailed household-level information on these variables for the same households, the concurrence of this edition of the survey with the COVID-19 pandemic makes it unique, allowing for all these variables to be analysed together in an exceptional setting. As in previous editions, this paper provides a detailed description of the most relevant methodological aspects of the design and implementation of the 2020 edition, including: the sample design, the questionnaire, the data collection process, the validation of the data, the computation of weights and the imputation procedures. In addition, it also describes the most important methodological changes that had to be implemented as a result of the pandemic, mainly the interviewing mode, which was switched from CAPI to CATI.

Keywords: wealth survey; oversampling of the rich; panel; refreshment sample; data collection; interviewing mode; imputation; weights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2024-02
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DOI: 10.53479/36089

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