Income and Living Conditions Survey

The Income and Living Conditions Survey is a regular annual survey used to collect data on income, economic activity, educational attainment, as well as financial and material conditions of a population.

The survey is carried out on the basis of the Official Statistics Act (NN, Nos 25/20, 155/23 and 124/25 - corr.), which guarantees data confidentiality. All data collected by this survey will be used exclusively in aggregate form, which means that it will not be possible to identify any household or individual who participated in the survey.
The Income and Living Conditions Survey is a mandatory survey set up in accordance with the Eurostat methodological guides and regulations, which ensures full comparability of the survey data with those from EU countries. This survey is carried out in all EU Member States, and it has been carried out for more than 15 years in the Republic of Croatia.

The survey is aimed at collecting quality data that serve to calculate the income distribution indicators as well as indicators of poverty and social exclusion. These indicators are important for monitoring and implementing economic and social policy measures of the competent authorities of the Republic of Croatia, for various scientific analyses and for informing the general public about the state of social progress.

In 2026, the survey will be conducted from March to the end of May by interviewing 13 348 private households randomly selected from the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. The data in the survey are collected throughout the Republic of Croatia by authorised interviewers of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, who are obliged to show their official identity card at the request of the household.

The survey questionnaire consists of two parts, i.e. questions for households and questions for persons. Children under the age of 16 do not answer questions in the survey. In addition to regular questions for households and persons, specific topics, the so-called modules, are also dealt with, which change every year. In 2026, the modules are Labour market and Over-indebtedness, consumption and wealth.