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Annual expenditure. By expenditure groups

Average annual expenditure. By expenditure groups Catalonia. 2024
Per household Per person Per unit of consumption
Total 37,409 (b) Break in time series 14,746 (b) Break in time series 21,906 (b) Break in time series
Food and non-alcoholic beverages 5,706 (b) Break in time series 2,249 (b) Break in time series 3,341 (b) Break in time series
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco 416 (b) Break in time series 164 (b) Break in time series 243 (b) Break in time series
Clothing and footwear 1,597 (b) Break in time series 630 (b) Break in time series 935 (b) Break in time series
Housing and suplies 12,733 (b) Break in time series 5,019 (b) Break in time series 7,456 (b) Break in time series
Household 1,326 (b) Break in time series 523 (b) Break in time series 777 (b) Break in time series
Health 1,504 (b) Break in time series 593 (b) Break in time series 881 (b) Break in time series
Transport 4,055 (b) Break in time series 1,599 (b) Break in time series 2,375 (b) Break in time series
Information and communication 1,204 (b) Break in time series 475 (b) Break in time series 705 (b) Break in time series
Leisure 2,115 (b) Break in time series 834 (b) Break in time series 1,239 (b) Break in time series
Education 779 (b) Break in time series 307 (b) Break in time series 456 (b) Break in time series
Restaurants and accommodation services 3,184 (b) Break in time series 1,255 (b) Break in time series 1,865 (b) Break in time series
Financial services 1,469 (b) Break in time series 579 (b) Break in time series 860 (b) Break in time series
Personal care and other services 1,319 (b) Break in time series 520 (b) Break in time series 773 (b) Break in time series
Units: Euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Household Budget Survey (base 2016).
(b) Break in time series.

Last update: October 29, 2025.

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.

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.

From 2024 onwards, it has been included the new United Nations International Classification of Consumption known as ECOICOP 2018 (European Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose), which replaces the classification that had been used since 2016.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.