Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully … underreporting by aligning consumption derived from Mozambican household surveys with national accounts. Consumption in categories … most consumed by wealthy households is more frequently underreported, and therefore scaling household level consumption by …

Estimates of household expenditures directly obtained from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and … household final consumption expenditures from national accounts have discrepancies, with their divergence generally growing … accounts and survey-based estimates of household expenditure. Further, it also encourages the conduct of other data collection …

This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys … assets, and wealth held through trusts. Both household surveys and tax data remain insufficient to properly capture capital … of the distribution (3,500 individuals) own 15 per cent of household net worth, more than the bottom 90 per cent as a …

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides valuable information for the monetary policy and financial …