Consumption: Italian Households Consumption data

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Italian Households Consumption data

Description

This dataset is a subset from the 2016 Survey on Household Income and Wealth data, a statistical survey conducted by the Bank of Italy. The statistical units are the households and the head of the household is conventionally selected as the major income earner.

Format

A data.frame containing 568 observations on the following 8 variables:

NComp

the number of household members.

Sex

the sex of the head of the household.

Age

the age of the head of the household.

NEarners

the number of household income earners.

Area

a factor indicating the geographical area where the household is located.

Citizenship

a factor indicating the citizenship of the head of household.

Income

the net disposable income.

Consumption

the propensity to consume, defined as the percentage of Income that is spent rather than saved.

Details

Full data are available on the website of the Bank of Italy. Consumption is computed as the ratio between the amount of ‘consumption’ over the ‘net disposable income’.

Source

Bank of Italy, Survey on Household Income and Wealth, 2016.

Survey description.


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