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The staff expenditures survey (housing and household) elicits information on expenses incurred by professional staff members and their families both inside and outside of their duty station of assignment. The purpose of the staff expenditures survey is to collect data to be used in the determination of in-area expenditures and out-of-area expenditures and to establish their corresponding weights.

 

In addition, data from these surveys are used to calculate rental subsidy thresholds for the various duty stations, and retail price indices, which are widely used by Member States and other interested parties involved in cost-of-living adjustments of salaries of expatriate.