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Annual expenditure. By size of municipality

Average annual expenditure. By size of municipality Catalonia Total expenditure (milions of euros)
Size (inhabitants) Up to 10,000 10,001 - 20,000 20,001 - 50,000 50,001 - 100,000 More than 100,000 Province capital Total
2022 18,078 10,071 16,513 12,628 15,847 29,197 102,333
2021 17,758 9,828 14,239 12,573 15,067 27,901 97,366
2020 14,882 8,926 13,993 10,687 13,425 27,946 89,859
2019 18,065 9,926 15,008 10,942 14,859 32,170 100,970
2018 18,328 10,019 15,222 11,387 13,900 30,014 98,871
2017 17,046 9,479 14,786 10,963 13,945 28,428 94,648
2016 16,806 9,081 13,724 10,039 13,399 27,296 90,344
2015 15,622 7,788 14,323 9,144 14,694 27,434 89,006
2014 15,104 8,240 14,492 9,338 13,745 26,760 87,679
2013 13,989 8,862 13,499 9,519 14,540 25,907 86,316
2012 15,447 9,215 13,755 9,321 14,432 25,870 88,039
2011 16,312 8,348 14,824 11,263 13,352 27,556 91,655
2010 17,560 8,015 15,116 9,798 13,720 26,789 90,997
2009 17,563 9,742 14,095 9,584 14,914 28,951 94,848
2008 17,497 9,964 15,268 10,253 15,483 28,381 96,845
2007 17,897 8,714 15,009 10,389 14,085 26,448 92,541
2006 14,916 8,486 13,457 9,884 15,045 26,438 88,226
Source:
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.
Notes:
The reference population for the 2012 results is the 2011 Census.
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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