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Population according to difficulty in making ends meet

Population according to difficulty in making ends meet Catalonia. 2025
Men Women Total
A lot of difficulty 9.3 9.0 9.2
With difficulty 12.8 12.9 12.9
With some difficulty 25.1 25.4 25.2
With some facility 28.7 29.3 29.0
With facility 19.5 19.8 19.7
With a lot of facility 4.4 3.3 3.8
Not stated .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 0.4 0.3
Units: Percentage.
Source: Idescat. Survey on Living Conditions.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Population according to difficulty in making ends meet Spain. 2025
Men Women Total
A lot of difficulty 8.6 8.5 8.5
With difficulty 12.0 12.1 12.1
With some difficulty 24.9 25.6 25.3
With some facility 29.9 29.7 29.8
With facility 20.6 20.4 20.5
With a lot of facility 3.9 3.6 3.7
Not stated 0.1 0.2 0.1
Units: Percentage.
Source: INE. Survey on Living Conditions.

Last update: February 5, 2026.

Methodological note

The Survey on Living Conditions (ECV) has as its main objective to produce information on the personal distribution of income through the net annual income of the population, the incidence and composition of poverty.

To measure the degree of satisfaction of households with respect to their economic situation and their net annual income, the variable relating to the degree of difficulty in making ends meet with the net annual income of the household is collected. This variable presents the degree of difficulty perceived by people in making ends meet, categorised as follows:

With great difficulty

  • With difficulty
  • With some difficulty
  • With some ease
  • With ease
  • With great ease

The data for Catalonia comes from the Survey on Living Conditions. This is an annual statistical operation of INE, which Idescat uses to make a specific application of the results for Catalonia.

From 2016, as the result of an agreement signed with the INE to improve this statistic, Idescat carries out its own field work to extend the Survey with information from ore than 1,700 households; this means that the sample now includes more than 3,000 households and 7,300 individuals. The main objective of this extension is to improve the statistical validity of the results.

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