Income and spending

Income and spending

1. Lower income brackets have shorter healthy life expectancy
2. Households cautious about spending
3. Traditional role patterns in spending by single men and women
4. Mood among consumers less negative
5. 130 thousand households with an income of more than 100 thousand euro
6. More households at poverty risk in 2008
7. Household consumption still at low level
8. Consumers optimistic about economic future
9. Household consumption down
10. Consumers slightly more pessimistic
11. Growing confidence in future economy
12. Decline household consumption slows down
13. Consumers confidence unchanged
14. Fewer women to receive 'kitchen sink subsidy'
15. Household consumption remains low
16. Dutch consumers much less negative about the economy
17. Less paid into company savings schemes
18. Students earn an average 5 thousand euro a year
19. Households save 25 euro a month on energy bill
20. Household consumption invariably low
21. Jobless people's purchasing power reduced by 15 percent
22. Consumer confidence stable
23. Housing and energy costs weigh heavy on lowest incomes
24. Household consumption stays low
25. Consumer confidence hardly changed
26. More than 2,800 euro extra for families with children in 2007
27. Consumers refrain from spending
28. Own home main asset
29. Growing number of women economically independent
30. Nearly a quarter of immigrants transfer money to the countries where their families live
31. Consumer confidence rebounds
32. Purchasing power on average 2.8 percent higher in 2007
33. Personal inflation calculator
34. Number of households at risk of poverty in the Netherlands relatively low
35. Popularity online saving further down
36. Downswing in spending on durable consumer goods
37. Dutch consumers far less pessimistic about economic future
38. Income differences relatively small in the Netherlands
39. Gender income gap has not narrowed in recent years
40. Income distribution in the Netherlands
41. Households lose capital, but gain income in 2008
42. Consumer spending up because of increased gas consumption
43. Dutch consumer more pessimistic about the future
44. Consumer spending marginally up
45. Dutch consumer remains pessimistic
46. Most substantial increase energy bill in four years
47. Households donate less to charitable organisations
48. Consumer spending marginally lower
49. Consumer confidence slightly down