Expenditure brief (level 3); by household characteristics, 1992-2010
Explanation of symbols
Table explanation
Expenditure by amounts spent and household characteristics such as size of the household, composition of the household, age of the breadwinner, living conditions, income deciles
and income quartiles by size of the household and distribution channels. Classifications according to income and main source of income in preliminary results until 2010 are based on incomedata from the year preceding the year under review.
Data available: 1992-2010.
Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final for 1992-2009. Figures of 2010 are preliminary.
Changes as of 6 October 2016:
None, this table is stopped.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable.
Description topics
- Total all households
- Average amount spent
- Average annual spending per household.
- Average spending (%)
- Household characteristics
- Composition of multi-person households
- With underaged children (total)
- No underaged children (total)
- Multi-person households without underaged children.
- Age main breadwinner
- Refers to single households and multi-person households.
- Age main breadwinner: tot 45 yrs
- Age main breadwinner: 45-64 yrs
- Age main breadwinner: 65 yrs or older
- Income quartiles (25% groups)
- 1st quartile
- 2nd quartile
- 3rd quartile
- 4th quartile
- Main source of income
- Main source of income: labour
- Labour total (wages and profits)
- Wages
- Main source of income: benefit
- Old age pension/pension
- Distribution channels
- The following distinctions are made by distribution channel:
Retail trade:
- shops, including department stores;
- market, mail order companies, etc.
Other distribution channels:
- hotels and restaurants sector
- other distribution channels, for instance:
(second-hand) shop, (self-manufactured) products, wholesale business,
allocated expenses (e.g. income based on rent value owner-occupied
dwelling), public utilities, insurance companies, all expenditure abroad
and during holidays.- Average purchases (=100%)
- Average purchases in euro.
Proportional distribution over the various distribution channels as a
percentage of these purchases.