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Annual expenditure. By sex and age of the main breadwinner

Average annual expenditure. By sex and age of the main breadwinner Catalonia Total expenditure (milions of euros)
By sex Men Women By Age groups Up to 30 years 30 - 44 years 45 - 59 years 60 - 74 years 75 years and above Total
2022 64,963 37,370 3,666 24,182 38,546 26,447 9,492 102,333
2021 66,081 31,285 3,202 24,156 36,338 24,865 8,805 97,366
2020 61,384 28,475 3,596 22,008 34,049 21,691 8,516 89,859
2019 67,915 33,055 3,962 26,925 36,885 23,880 9,319 100,970
2018 69,126 29,745 2,972 27,810 33,131 25,273 9,685 98,871
2017 67,065 27,583 3,232 25,782 33,030 24,095 8,508 94,648
2016 63,790 26,554 2,652 27,657 29,652 22,118 8,265 90,344
2015 61,301 27,704 2,995 26,009 29,442 22,427 8,133 89,006
2014 61,263 26,415 3,390 25,358 30,222 21,092 7,617 87,679
2013 60,514 25,802 3,107 26,422 29,347 19,861 7,581 86,316
2012 62,889 25,150 3,687 28,007 29,449 19,460 7,436 88,039
2011 67,464 24,191 4,697 29,765 31,520 18,705 6,968 91,655
2010 68,420 22,577 4,488 31,511 31,077 16,695 7,226 90,997
2009 71,015 23,833 5,338 32,732 31,883 18,768 6,128 94,848
2008 74,794 22,051 6,133 33,686 31,772 18,828 6,426 96,845
2007 71,282 21,259 5,370 32,699 31,000 17,689 5,784 92,541
2006 71,249 16,976 5,061 32,183 30,003 15,652 5,328 88,226
2005 52,533 10,861 1,867 18,119 24,640 14,045 4,723 63,394
2004 49,436 9,308 2,027 16,985 22,771 12,229 4,731 58,744
2003 45,634 8,426 1,843 14,134 20,731 12,517 4,836 54,060
2002 43,105 7,566 1,522 14,655 19,791 10,970 3,734 50,671
Source:
2002-2003: INE. Continuous survey of family budgets, base 1997.
2004-2005: Idescat, based on data from the INE's continuous survey of family budgets, base 1997.
2006-2015: Idescat, based on data from the INE's survey of family budgets, base 2006.
2016-2022: Idescat. Statistics on Household Consumer Expeditures, base 2016.
Note: The data corresponding to the years 2006-2012 have been revised with the updated reference populations, from the Population and Housing Census 2011.

Last update: July 20, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Family consumption
Economic activity of families that consists of the utilisation of goods and services to satisfy their material needs.
Family expenditure
Monetary volume that a household and all of its members use to pay for what are considered consumer goods and services for use in the same household or to be transferred free of charge to other households or institutions.
Household
Set of people habitually living in the same dwelling. There are two types of households: one-person households, made up of one person, and multi-person households, made up of two or more people.
Consumer unit
A different accountable concept of members of a household which is obtained by applying adjustment factors to expenditure, which enables us to weight different levels of need between families of different sizes and composition.

Methodological aspects

The data on family expenditure was obtained from the Family budget survey (EPF) conducted by the INE. Family income is expressed in annual averages per household, person and consumption unit. The expenditure groups are grouped in accordance with the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose COICOP-HBS of the European system of integrated economic accounts (ESA), nomenclature that was standardised by the Statistical Office of the European Union.

Household consumer expenditure represents the main economic activity of the population, and is an approach to the concept of private consumption as the most important component of a country's aggregate demand. The main aim of the statistics on household consumer expenditure is to produce information on the size, structure and distribution of this expense, as well as inter-annual variations of the aggregate consumption. The consumer expenditure recorded in the EPF refers to the monetary flow that household economies spend on the purchase of consumer products, as well as all non-monetary expenditure that is generated on the basis of supply, self-sufficiency, any salary in kind and imputed housing rent.

The expenditure can be calculated per person in the household and unit of consumption in the household. In order to obtain the units of consumption we use the so-called equivalence scales, which turn household members into units of consumption. These equivalence scales are applied because economies of scale are generated when a household shares certain goods and services, which means that the needs of a household with n persons are sometimes lower than the needs of a household with just one person.

In this case we use the modified OECD scale, which gives the following values to each member of the household:

  • Main provider: 1
  • Adult older than 13: 0.5
  • Child 13 and under: 0.3

The total expenditure of a household is divided by the number of units of consumption in the household and we thus obtain the equivalent expenditure per unit of consumption. Each member of a household is assigned the equivalent expenditure of his or her household.

The Family budget survey, Base 2006 (EPF) started in 2006 and substituted the Continuous Family Budget Survey, Base 1997 (ECPF) , which was used from 1997 to 2005. The EPF 2006 incorporates a variety of methodological and conceptual changes, which have improved the quality of the estimation of expenditure and its structure. Comparisons with data from the previous survey have to be made using statistical linking methods.

Expenditure is presented classified according to the Classification of the Functions of Individual Consumption (COICOP/HBS) until 2015. From 2016 onwards, the European Classification of the Functions of Individual Consumption (ECOICOP) is used. These two classifications are not entirely comparable.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".

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