INS National Institute of Statistics : Household income and expenditure

No. 9 / January 10, 2020

Domain: Standard of living

IN Q III 2019, THE TOTAL MONTHLY AVERAGE INCOME OF THE POPULATION PER HOUSEHOLD WAS 4872 LEI AND THE TOTAL MONTHLY AVERAGE EXPENDITURE PER HOUSEHOLD WAS 4202 LEI

• The total monthly average income*) was, in nominal terms, 4872 lei per household and 1889 lei per person in Q III 2019.
• In Q III 2019, the total monthly average expenditure**) of the population was 4202 lei per household (1630 lei per person), accounting for 86.3% of the total income.

Total income:

Structure of total household income, by formation sources,

in Q III 2019

6.0% 1.0%

1.1%

18.2%

1.9%

2.3%

Salary income

Agricultural income

Income from independent non- agricultural activities

Income from social benefits

Property and household assets sale income

In-kind income

69.5%

Other income

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• the money income was 4577 lei monthly, on average, per household (1775 lei per person) and the in-kindincome was 295 lei monthly per household (114 lei per person).
• the salaries and other related income were the most important source of income (69.5% of the total household income).
• the following also contributed to the formation of the total household income: the income from social benefits (18.2%), the agricultural income (2.3%), the income from independent non-agriculturalactivities (1.9%) and the property and household asset sale income (1.1%). The in-kindincome also has an important weight (6.0%), mainly the equivalent value of the consumption of agro-food products from own resources (4.9%).

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• the residential area bears upon the differences in level and especially in structure between the household income in the urban area and the household income in the rural area.

The level and structure of the total income in Q III 2019
Total			% of the total:
income	Money	of which:		In-kind	of which:
	income				income	equivalent
						value of the	equivalent
	gross					in-kind
		income from			value of the
	salaries		income		income
		independent		consumption
	and	agricultural	from		obtained by
monthly	non-		of agro-food
other	income	social		employees
agricultural		products from
average	salary		benefits		and
	activities		own
per	rights				recipients
				resources
person						of social
- lei -						benefits

TOTAL	1889.26	94.0	69.5	2.3	1.9	18.2	6.0	1.1	4.9
URBAN	2309.94	96.5	77.3	0.4	1.1	16.3	3.5	1.2	2.3
RURAL	1398.30	89.0	54.3	5.9	3.4	21.8	11.0	1.0	10.0

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Total expenditure:

• the main uses of the household expenditure are the consumption of food goods and non-food goods, payment of services and the transfers towards public and private administration and towards the social insurance budgets as taxes, contributions and dues as well as to cover certain needs related to household production (animals and poultry feed, payment for work on household production, products for sowing, veterinary services etc.)
• the expenditure on investments, intended for purchasing or building dwellings, purchasing land and equipment required by household production, purchasing shares etc., has a small weight in the total household expenditure (only 0.7%).

Structure of total household expenditure,

in Q III 2019

3.4%

	Consumption
	expenditure
33.0%	Investment expenditure
	Production expenditure
	Taxes, contributions,
	etc.
61.2%	Other expenditure

1.7%

0.7%

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• the residential area determines some characteristics related to the size and structure of the total consumption expenditure.

The level and structure of the total expenditure in Q III 2019

		Total											% of the total:
		expenditure			Money					of which money expenditure on:			Equivalent
					expenditure			consumption				of which on:				Taxes,			value of the
		monthly						expenditure							purchase						contributions,			consumption
											food an	d			payment			dues, fees			of agro-food
												of non	-
		average per
																products from
											beverages			of
		person												food
															own
											consumed				services
		- lei -												goods								resources
TOTAL	1629.64	94.3	56.7	16.9	24.2		15.6	33.0		5.7
URBAN	1964.38	97.4	56.1	16.7	22.4		17.0	37.3		2.6
RURAL	1238.96	88.7	57.9	17.4	27.5		13.0	24.9		11.3

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• according to the standard classification of the consumption expenditure by use (COICOP), food and non-alcoholicbeverages accounted, on average, for 31.3% of household consumption in Q III 2019.

Structure of the total consumption expenditure by use,

in Q III 2019

2.0% 5.6%

0.1%

6.8%

31.3%

4.6%

6.9%

4.8%

6.0%

8.2%

15.4%8.3%

Agro-food products and non-alcoholic

beverages

Alcoholic beverages and tobacco

Clothing and footwear

Dwelling, water, electricity, gas and other fuels

Furnishings and dwelling equipment and

maintenance Health

Transport

Communications

Recreation and culture

Education

Hotels, cafes and restaurants

Miscellaneous goods and services

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Additional information:

*) Total income includes all the money receipts from various sources for which there is no obligation to be returned and in-kind income (evaluated in lei).

**) Total expenditure include all money expenditure, regardless of use and the equivalent of consumption from own household resources.

For the accurate interpretation of the indicators, kindly see the Methodological Notes.

Additional information about household income and expenditure will be available in TEMPO online, validation deadline 07.02.2020.

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