Abstract
The questionnaire on family budgets obtains the financial state of the year at a given time.
Therefore this questionnaire should contain the items of the irreducible minimum for the diagnosis. The features of the main questionnaire are as follows :
1) Being the fundamental form of questionnaires on family budgets, the questionnaire is : applicable to all households.
2) Living expenditure contains cash expenditure, expenditure in kind and the sum of depreciation.
3) On completion of the investigation, the total cash income must be checked in comparison with the total cash disbursements. And if there is a great difference between them, revision is necessary.
4) This form can also be used as a tabulation of the housekeeping account. Some supplementary questionnaires are administered together with the main one to make correct diagnosis.
