Sponsored by Spain's Central Bank, NORC is carrying out the third round of the "Encuesta Financiera de las Familias" (EFF), Spain's Survey of Household Finances. The EFF is the sole source of household level data of its kind in Spain. The survey, taking place in 2008 and 2009 will be conducted via a computer assisted personal interview (CAPI) with 7,000 households, including an oversampling of wealthy households.

Similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances, which has been conducted by NORC since 1993, the EFF 2008 includes a longitudinal sample component, and is conducted entirely in Spanish by an experienced field staff managed by NORC’s subcontractor in Madrid under the direction of NORC's international and economics departments. Building on its experience with overseas projects and with multilingual populations in the United States, NORC developed the project's case management system for use by Spanish-only interviewers and programmed the questionnaire in both Spanish and English. Fieldwork is expected to be complete in June 2009.