Mongolia - HSES 2002/2003

Non-food commodity types:

The questionnaire on non-food expenditure covers the following commodity types:

1-3. Clothes and footwear:
Monetary expenditures on clothes and footwear are recorded. Total price is calculated irrespectively of how many pieces of one commodity has been bought.

Men's clothing
Women's clothing
Clothing for children aged under 4

Commodities purchased by household member but given to other people such as friends, relatives are not included here, but recorded at the Chapter 5 titled Grants and aids to others. Besides expenditures on clothes and footwear for a household member living (studying, serving a military service etc.) out of household are recorded in the table titled Grants and aids to others.

4. Jewelry, souvenir:
This subchapter includes all kinds of suitcases, bags, skin items, jewelry, souvenirs and other little items.

5. Cloth, cotton:
Here we include cloth and cotton such as woolen cloth, cloth "daalimba", "tsagaan yambuu", cotton cloth, satin, all kinds of silk, synthetic, thread, cotton, carded wool.

6. Education:
If a member of household is enrolled by educational institution at the time the survey is being conducted, all education expenditures occurred during the last month should be covered here.

Education fee of household member refers to only education fee of member who lives in this household during the survey period and who is considered to be a household member whereas expenditures on hostel, meal, transportation etc should be included in other education expenditures
Education fee, cash etc. sent to a member who studies far from his household and who has not been included in household roster should go to rows with 0603 and 0604 codes.

The quantity and value of all kind of notebooks purchased for pupils and students are recorded in this sub chapter.
Expenditures on pens and pencils include those paid for all kinds of ball pens, pencils, and stationery.

Expenditures on newspapers, magazines etc. should be also recorded.

7. Medical care expense:
Medicine expenditures include those paid for all kinds of medicines (such as drugs from temperature or illness, antibiotics, vitamins) and syringes purchased by household members during the period being surveyed.
Medical services include expenditures incurred by household members for hospital stays, ambulatory examines, dental services etc. However the total of expenditures incurred by non-members should be recorded in Non-monetary gifts and allowances chapter.

9. Recreation, beauty and toilet articles, services:

- Recreation, sports expenditures section includes those paid for sports commodities, musical instruments, playing cards, mahjong sets, all kinds of clocks and watches, cassettes, floppy disks, CD, batteries, photo films, bicycle, dolls etc.
- Toilet and beauty articles expenditures section includes those paid for beauty rouge powder, soap, shampoo, bath soap, tooth paste, detergent powder, laundry soap, cleanser powder etc.

12. Recreation, sport, culture, parlor service:
Recreation, sport, culture, parlor service include laundry, dry cleaning, hairdresser's service, shoe repair, watch, small utilities (TV set, cooker) repair, hire service etc. The chapter is farther broken down into the following sub chapters:

- Expenditures on cultural services include fees for library, Internet, video and audio cassettes hiring, ticket for concert or cinema, discos etc,
- Parlor service includes laundry, sauna and shower charge, dressmaking, repair of clothes and shoe, watch, small utilities repair, fee for maid, photo service etc,
- Beauty service includes hairdresser and beauty services.

10. Household utility:
Includes utensils, accessories, textiles and furnishings bought by household during the month being surveyed.

- Utensils and accessories includes all kinds of kitchen utensils for example: kettle, bucket, cups, plates etc
- Accessories and textiles includes all kinds of blankets, bed sheets, sewed and woven items, cloths, small carpet.

11. Durable goods:
This section includes household appliances, audio-visual equipment, furniture, and national dwelling "ger", transport equipment for household use.

The amount and price of durable goods purchased by cash and by installments are recorded in columns 1 and 2. The amount of durable goods received from others free of charge is recorded in column 3 whereas the value evaluated by local price for the same or similar commodity is recorded in column 4. Enumerator should have enough knowledge about market prices in order to be able to check the adequacy or records made by household.

- Household appliances include refrigerator, washing machine, microwave oven, vacuum cleaner, electric cooker, rice cooker, sewing machine, iron stove, water boiler etc. The cost of repair of household appliances is also recorded in this chapter.
- Audio-visual equipment include color and white-black TV set, video cassette recorder, music recorder, transistor, radio, musical instrument, computer, photo apparatus, watches and clocks, cassettes, batteries, fans etc. The cost of repair of audio-visual equipment is recorded in the same chapter.
- Furniture includes complete furniture for guest, kitchen and bedrooms, wooden and iron bed, wooden chairs, wooden trunk, sofa, armchair, chest of drawers etc. The cost of repair of furniture is also recorded here.
- National dwelling "ger" includes complete Mongolian ger, pole of ger, door, pillar, floor, felt and cotton cover of ger etc. The cost of repair of dwelling is recorded here.
- Household transport means include bicycle, motorcycle, lorry, car, horse-drawn vehicle etc. However a transport mean bought for business purpose should not be included here.

12. Housing expense:
This section consists of expenditures such as housing fee, electricity and fuels, housing repair, housing insurance etc.
- Housing fees include those for housing space, house rent, heating, hot water, dirty water, and garbage disposal. Amount paid to others for house repair is also included here.
- Electricity and fuels expenditures include those for electricity, firewood, coal, dung, light bulb, candle, and match.
- Building materials expenditures include those for wallpaper, oil pant, bricks, cement, glass, nail etc.

Please note that allowances received from entity by someone from household members for full or partial covering of housing, fuels expenses should be recorded in either Non-monetary gifts and allowances received from others or Income other than wage or salary chapters according to corresponding expenditure item.

13. Transportation:
Transportation costs include those for all kinds of transportation services. They include Expenditures on tickets of domestic and foreign airlines and railways, taxi, local and inter cities communal transportation, car wheel and other spare parts, fuel and lubricants etc.

Transportation costs occurred for business purposes are not included here. For example fuel cost for private car used for taxi services is not included here.

14. Communication:
Communication expenditures include those for local and long distance calls, monthly phone call and mobile, radio, TV, cable set, postal services. Total of other expenditures related to this chapter (for example fee for cable TV installation) is recorded in "other" row.