NEWS RELEASE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS 27 SEPTEMBER 2016

Disposable income of the household sector has increased by 10.8% in 2015 from the previous year while per capita income increased by 9.6 %. Measured in real terms, purchasing power per capita, increased by 7.9%. Households’ total income increased by 9.5% between 2014 and 2015 and total expenditure (i.e. property expenditure and current transfers paid) increased by 7.5% in the same time period.

 

Main revisions from earlier published data are due to an error correction in personally identified pension funds premiums for the years 2001-2014 and revised figures in the operating surplus from owners´ occupied dwellings for the years 1999-2014.

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