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Yes, it does.

 

The expenditure survey is designed to capture the most significant categories of expenditure for the consumption of staff and their households. In addition to housing, usually the most important category of expenditure, the questionnaire elicits information regarding expenditures on the consumption of food and beverages, clothing, various goods and services for the maintenance of the house, transport, communication, recreation and culture, education, health, restaurants and hotels and miscellaneous goods and services. The respondent can also record "Other expenditures" not categorized in specific boxes in the questionnaire.

 

If sufficient information is provided for these expenditures, they will be allocated to the appropriate categories at the data processing stage. If sufficient information is not provided or the expenditures are deemed to be relatively minor, then they would not be considered in the determination of the expenditure weights. However, if any emerging or significant trends in the expenditures of the staff population, in general, are detected, then they will be flagged for incorporation into future methodological revisions.

 

For example, with this new round of surveys, the questionnaire includes a new question on nursery/kindergarten costs, which was not present in the earlier version of the questionnaire. This addition was in recognition of a significant trend in such expenditures reported by staff in the previous round of surveys.