- co-resident
means a current household member other than a sample person;
- collection unit
means a household or person with certain characteristics to which or whom the information collected pertains;
- cross-sectional
means, in reference to data, those pertaining to a particular time or a given reference period;
- current household member
means a member of a sample household at the time of data collection or compilation;
- enterprise
includes one-person operations).
- fieldwork period
means the period during which data is collected from respondents;
- fusion household
means all sample persons from different sample households from the previous wave who join together to form a new household;
- household respondent
means the person from whom household-level information is obtained;
- household split
means a situation where the sample persons living in a sample household at the time of wave x, live, at the time of wave x+1, in more than one private household within the national territory included in the target population;
- initial household
means a sample household which has undergone a household split and where any sample person who lived in that household at the time of wave x still lives at the same address at the time of wave x+1.
- longitudinal
means, in reference to data, those pertaining to given subsequent reference periods, observed yearly over a certain length of time with respect to the same observation unit;
- modelling
means generating information that is missing in the data set by making use of substantive relationships with information from outside the data set;
- panel
means a subsample observed over more than one year.
- reference period
means the period to which a particular item of information relates;
- rotational panel design
means sample selection based on a fixed number of subsamples, each of which is representative of the target population at the time of its selection.
- sample household
means a private household containing at least one sample person;
- sample person
means a member of a private household in the initial sample who is at least 16 years old at the end of the income reference period;
- selected respondent model
means a mode of sampling based on individuals where the household to which the selected respondent belongs is the sample household and the selected respondent is the sample person;
- split-off household
means a household composed of members of the household that has undergone a household split, other than the initial household;
- wave
means a year in which a subsample is participating in the survey;