DOI: 10.26193/alwjdl
title: Indonesian Susenas, 2008

description: The Indonesia Social and Economic Survey (Susenas) is a nationwide survey conducted to collect information on social and economics indices. It serves as a main source of monitoring social and economic progress in society. Susenas has been conducted on an annual basis since 1963. Since 1992, in addition to a basic social and economic questionnaire (core), a more specialised questionnaire was introduced (module). The core questionnaire covers basic information about household and individual characteristics including health, death, education/literacy, employment, fertility and family planning, housing, and household expenditure. This questionnaire is asked annually with only slight modifications over the years. Susenas 2008 core covered 282,387 households and was designed to be representative up to district/municipality levels. The module is intended to gather more detailed information on specific topics, especially on data that changes less frequently than a year. There are three modules of Susenas and each module is added in a three-year cycle. In 2008, the module's topic was household consumption, household expenditure and household income. In the archive, the 2008 data are stored in seven data files. They are: 1. Household Characteristics from core questionnaires (Study ID 01218) 2. Household Food, Beverages and Tobacco Consumption from Purchase/Credit, from module questionnaires (Study ID 01220) 3. Household Food, Beverages and Tobacco Consumption from Self-Production/Gift, from module questionnaires (Study ID 01221) 4. Household Food, Beverages and Tobacco Consumption Total, from module questionnaires (Study ID 01222) 5. Household Non-Food Consumption/Expenditure from module questionnaires (Study ID 01223) 6. Summary of Household Expenditure from module questionnaires (Study ID 01224) 7. Individual Characteristics from core questionnaires (Study ID 01219) The seven data files can be viewed together here on the on-line catalogue, but will form seven separate files when downloaded. The contents of the data files are as follows: 1. Household Characteristics (Study ID 01218) This file contains information about household characteristics, collected from the core questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2008.K, Blocks I, II, III, VI, VII and VIII in the manual). Variables include identification of place, household size, housing information (including physical characteristics of the home and source of fuel), social welfare, and information technology (including mobile phones, computers and internet access). 2. Household Food, Beverages and Tobacco Consumption from Purchase/Credit (Study ID 01220) This file contains household information gathered from the module questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2008.M, Blocks I, II, IV in the manual). It includes identification of place, size of household, and the quantity and value of food, beverages and tobacco consumed during the last week, for those items which were obtained by purchase or credit. 3. Household Food, Beverages and Tobacco Consumption from from Self-Production/Gift (Study ID 01221) This file contains household information gathered from the module questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2008.M, Blocks I, II, IV in the manual). It includes identification of place, size of household, and the quantity and value of food, beverages and tobacco consumed during the last week, for those items which were obtained by self-production or as gifts. 4. Household Food, Beverages and Tobacco Consumption Total (Study ID 01222) This file contains household information gathered from the module questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2008.M, Blocks I, II, IV in the manual). It includes identification of place, size of household, and the total quantities and values of food, beverages and tobacco consumed during the last week. 5. Household Non-Food Consumption/Expenditure from module questionnaires (Study ID 01223) This file contains household information gathered from the module questionnaire (Questionnaire VSEN2008.M, Blocks I, II and IV in the manual). It includes identification of place, size of household, and expenditure on non-food items during the last month and year. 6. Summary of Household Expenditure (Study ID 01224) This file contains household data gathered from he module questionnaires (Questionnaire VSEN2008.M; Blocks I, II and IV in the manual). Variables include identification of place, household size, average household expenditure on food and non-food (itemised) and per capita expenditure. 7. Individual Characteristics (Study ID 01219) This file contains individual data gathered from core questionnaires (Questionnaire VSEN2008.K, Blocks I, II, III, IV and V in the manual). It includes information about identification of place, household member characteristics, health characteristics (including health complaints and treatment received), health of children aged 0-59 months (including immunisation and breastfeeding), education for children aged five and above (including education level completed and literacy), activity of those aged ten and above (including occupation and salary), and fertility and family planning for females aged ten and above (including number of births and contraception).