The survey is carried out in a time-span of twelve months. Each month is dedicated to a different sample of households, so as to measure the change in spending patterns and levels as a result of seasonal, temporary, and periodical changes.
The researcher, during the survey period, after receiving the supportive daily and monthly records from households during the survey month, and after carrying out the final review, dumbs the data from the basic form of the household spending and income survey as the starting point for data collection.
For collecting survey data, the direct method was adopted, through face-to-face interviews. The researcher, during the survey period (the survey month), pays several visits to the household,  detailed as follows:
Identification Visit: 
During the five days preceding the survey month, the researcher registers the geographical and identifying data of the form (Section I) of the targeted households in his work area, and completes the housing characteristics (Section II), and demographic characteristics (Section III) of the form, as well as Section IV.
Follow-up Visits: 
 The researcher, during the four weeks of the month of the survey, visits the household at a rate of at least twice a week, according to the circumstances of the household, in order to make sure that the household records its daily spending in the supportive forms according to the instructions.  
Receipt and Delivery of Supportive Records: 
At the end of each week during the month of the survey, the researcher visits the household, receives the completed daily and monthly supportive forms, and gives the household a new daily form for the following week, with reviewing the monthly supportive form and making sure that the household records its monthly spending in this record according to the instructions. The researcher continues in the same way until the end of the survey month.
Final Visit 
 Over the three days following the survey month, the researcher pays a final visit to the household, with the aim to:

• Receive the daily supportive record of the last week.
• Receive the monthly supportive record of the household.
• Get data of spending on durable goods (Section VII) and income (Section VIII) of household members with incomes, during the year that ends by the end of the survey month.