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Average expenditure by households. Base 2016 Catalonia Value
Average annual expenditure per household (euros) Per person Per unit of consumption Total expenditure (millions of euros)
2022 33,085 13,479 19,894 102,333.0
2021 31,710 12,856 18,997 97,366.0
2020 29,235 11,872 17,549 89,859.3
2019 32,916 13,414 19,833 100,969.9
2018 32,586 13,270 19,626 98,870.7
2017 31,619 12,833 19,028 94,647.6
2016 30,446 12,309 18,297 90,344.1
Source: Idescat. Statistics on Household Consumer Expeditures, base 2016.
Average expenditure by households. Base 2016 Spain Value
Average annual expenditure per household (euros) Per person Per unit of consumption Total expenditure (millions of euros)
2022 31,568 12,780 18,848 600,869.5
2021 29,244 11,780 17,409 551,720.5
2020 26,996 10,848 16,058 508,738.2
2019 30,243 12,152 18,006 566,814.6
2018 29,871 12,019 17,814 556,432.6
2017 29,188 11,726 17,400 540,347.0
2016 28,200 11,312 16,803 520,119.2
Source: INE. Survey of Family Budgets.

Last update: July 20, 2023.

Methodological note

Household expenditure consists of the entire flow of money that household economies devote to the acquisition of consumer items, plus supplies, self-consumption goods, or any salary in kind, despite these last items not implying any monetary flow.

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 other 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.

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.

These statistics are conducted upon the basis of the Family Budget Survey carried out each year by the INE. Idescat processes this data in detail on a yearly basis, expanding the results for Catalonia.

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