Bureau of National statistics
Agency for Strategic planning and reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Monetary expenses include consumer expenses, financial assistance to relatives and friends, alimony, taxes, payments and other payments, repayment of loans and debt.
Consumer spending is a part of household monetary expenditures aimed at purchasing consumer goods and services. Consumer spending includes spending on the purchase of food products, non-food products and paid services.
Cash income includes income from employment, social transfers and other cash receipts.
The income of the population used for consumption includes consumer expenditures (without investments in production activities and accumulation) and the cost (in monetary terms) of in-kind products of own production and transfers consumed.
Data on the survey of population budgets by standard of living are formed on a quarterly and annual basis, based on a survey of 12,000 households, in accordance with the Methodology for Organizing and conducting a sample survey of households by standard of Living, approved by Order No. 31 of the Chairman of the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 2, 2020, registered with the Ministry Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 20922, July 3, 2020, with a methodology for constructing a sample of households on the survey of living standards, Approved by Order No. 202 of the Chairman of the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 14, 2015.
