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Household consumption down
Dutch household spending on goods and services was 3.5 percent lower in August 2009 than in August 2008.
Increase in household consumption
In May 2010, household spending on goods and services was 1.2 percent up on May 2009.
Consumption growth presses ahead
In February 2006, households spent 2.6 percent more on goods and services than a year earlier. It is the highest growth rate in recent years.
Medical care consumption by older people in the low-income brackets
In 2006 more 55 to 80-year-olds living on long-term low incomes consulted medical specialists and physiotherapists than people in the same age category with incomes above the low-income threshold.
Consumption up in November
Dutch households have been spending more since last summer. In November 2005 households spent 1.6 percent more on goods and services than twelve months previously.
Diesel fuel consumption dramatically down
For the fourth quarter running, diesel sales slumped in the second quarter of 2009 relative to the same period one year previously. A downturn of this magnitude only occurred once in the past.
Final consumption of non-energetic purposes
Final use of energy other than as a source of power or heat.
Consumption
The use of goods and services for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective needs of members of society.
Actual individual consumption
All expenditure on goods and services to satisfy individual human needs directly. This may be resident household or government spending.
Consumption by the government
The use of goods and services for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective needs of members of society.