Data are shown by place of purchase, income group deciles and age of household reference person. Family spending workbook 2: Expenditure by income Dataset Released 19 March Data are shown by region, age, income including equivalised group deciles and quintiles , economic status, socio-economic class, housing tenure, output area classification, urban and rural areas Great Britain only , place of purchase and household composition.
Family spending workbook 3: Expenditure by region Dataset Released 19 March Data are shown by region, age, income including equivalised group deciles and quintiles , economic status, socio-economic class, housing tenure, output area classification, urban and rural areas Great Britain only , place of purchase and household composition.
Family spending workbook 4: Expenditure by household characteristic Dataset Released 19 March Data are shown by region, age, income including equivalised group deciles and quintiles , economic status, socio-economic class, housing tenure, output area classification, urban and rural areas Great Britain only , place of purchase and household composition. Family spending workbook 5: Expenditure on housing Dataset Released 19 March Data are shown by region, age, income including equivalised group deciles and quintiles , economic status, socio-economic class, housing tenure, output area classification, urban and rural areas Great Britain only , place of purchase and household composition.
Definition of household expenditure Dataset Released 19 March Provides a detailed breakdown on the definition of household expenditure. Disposable income is arguably the most widely used household income measure. Disposable income is the amount of money that households have available for spending and saving after direct taxes such as Income Tax, National Insurance and Council Tax have been accounted for.
It includes earnings from employment, private pensions and investments, as well as cash benefits provided by the state. It does not include all types of payments, for example, capital mortgage repayments are excluded. Section 2 of this bulletin references housing costs outside the COICOP classification system; this is to give a more complete view of this topic area.
Comparisons across different types of individuals and households such as retired and non-retired, or rich and poor or over time is done after income has been equivalised.
Equivalisation is the process of accounting for the fact that households with many members are likely to need a higher income to achieve the same standard of living as households with fewer members. Equivalisation considers the number of people living in the household and their ages, acknowledging that while a household with two people in it will need more money to sustain the same living standards as one with a single person, the two-person household is unlikely to need double the income.
Results presented in this bulletin cover the financial year ending FYE , that is, April to March This bulletin uses the mean when referring to averages unless stated otherwise. Therefore, total average weekly household expenditure is equal to the total weekly expenditure of households divided by the number of households.
The LCF is a UK household survey designed to provide information on household expenditure patterns and food consumption. The LCF is a voluntary sample survey of private households. Each individual in a selected household is asked to complete a household interview and then an expenditure diary for two weeks. The survey is continuous, interviews being spread evenly over the year to ensure that seasonal effects are covered.
Great care is taken to ensure complete confidentiality of information and to protect the identity of LCF households. Only anonymised data are supplied to users. More quality and methodology information on strengths, limitations, appropriate uses, and how the data were created is available in the Living Costs and Food Survey technical report and QMI.
The LCF is reviewed every year and changes are made to keep it up to date. Therefore, year-on-year changes should be interpreted with caution. Average household income, UK: financial year ending Bulletin Released 5 March Estimates of median and mean disposable income for people in the UK for the financial year ending An expenditure-based approach to poverty in the UK: financial year ending Article Released 5 June Article discusses expenditure-based poverty measures and how these can be considered alongside income-based ones.
Housing affordability in England and Wales: Bulletin Released 19 March Data on house prices and annual earnings to calculate affordability ratios for national and subnational geographies in England and Wales, on an annual basis. Tell us whether you accept cookies We would like to use cookies to collect information about how you use ons. Accept all cookies. Set cookie preferences. Family spending in the UK: April to March Average weekly household expenditure on goods and services in the UK, by age, income, economic status, socio-economic class, household composition and region.
View superseded version. Table of contents Main points High-level household spending Coherence with other sources Family spending data Glossary Measuring the data Related links. View all data used in this Statistical bulletin.
Back to table of contents. Figure 4: Spending on food and non-alcoholic drinks varies least by decile Indexed household income, total spending and spending by component by income decile, UK, FYE Notes: Housing includes housing net , fuel and power, mortgage interest and Council Tax and excludes mortgage capital payments. Figure 5: The highest decile spend almost twice as much as the lowest on food and non-alcoholic drinks yet their proportionate spend is half Proportion of total spending by category and income decile, UK, FYE Life is great and we have loads of disposable income to go on holidays, eat in expensive restaurants whenever we want, get brand new cars every year and still save over a grand a month.
I also forage for free food; blackberries, wild apples, nuts, etc. If you cannot cook it is worth learning the basics from family, friends, TV progs, courses, where ever. What is a family? This is essential information to making sense of the figures. I live as a single person as do many many others nowadays. Very strange article. The two of us do most of our shopping in Aldi, and buy very little convenience food and no alcohol.
It is difficult, as it is, someone want to throw some of that spare cash our way. The figure for housing seems rediculously low? Please tell me how do people live on a week. Virgin is essential as 1 day a week my lady works at home and requires ultra fast broadband for server work. How do people spend or waste? No mention has been made about Council Tax! We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. Would some one like to correct me if I have got my facts wrong.
If this includes the top earners how can this be average? Unfortunately it would appear that the use of average figures based on statistics from a large sample is lost on many people posting on here as their mesages clearly indicate that they do not understand the information provided - most notably the term AVERAGE. I cannot understand why there is not one mention in your article about anywhere in the South West. This tends to show that once again we are considered to be a nebulous area which in any form of statistics is deemed unnecessary.
I don't find this very clear. They don't pay me even the average amount where I live, which is quite mad when you think about it. Of course the London and S East shopping and living costs housing,travel. That is why "national" pay rates are unfair and cost the country unnecessarily. The Trades Unions rooked the country with that public service pay scam from the 60s onwards so that pay levels ceased to reflect "same standard of living" costs.
I'd be worried sick if I spent this amount in a week!! I'd be living way, way beyond my means and would have been in severe debt a long time ago.
I agree that it is research by someone living in cloud-cuckoo land, a banker, politician or MP perhaps!? I can't relate to these findings.
Cloud Cuckoo Land! Who did this research?????? How much has wages risen in past 2 yrs??? When I was being paid the National Minimum wage that was 2 wks pay. Now I get enough to pay my rent and council tax.
When it is gone I fear the worse Your figures bear absolutely no relevance to the actual cost of living. I suggest that you appoint a new think tank! I live in Durham and this is pretty much spot on. The disappointing thing here is that austerity has made me Mr. I think it's a pile of rubbish! Nobody asked me, or people like me. Clearly so. As a pensioner I have to take one and half weeks pension out of a months pension for my food and entertainment And I have spoken to a lot of pensioners in the same boat My home have got to be sold How is this fair?
This is not so as far as pensioners are concerned. Thanks to this government pensioners have never been so treated. These figures don't make any sense. Doesn't seem realistic. All ONS statistics are median values, by the way. However, would argue with such a non-Guassian distribution curve, the modal value would be a better representation. The Median figures would be more representative, that show figures where half of respondents are above the figure and half below.
You don't appear to take into account at all the East of England. I know we are on a road to nowhere, but we stilll exist in a very beautiful area of the country. We still pay to live. We are a bit fed up of being overlooked! My wife and myself are pensioners worked all our lives now living of scraps of food, either heat or food thanks to the evil Tories. I don't buy any convenience foods either. Try paying out that on a pension its a disgrace what they us after working all my life from 15 till 70 its a laugh.
I am 86 in April and have been retired in NE Essex, 18 years. I had an international career as a librarian. About half my pension income is in Sterling, half in US dollars: the proportion varies a little with exchange rate fluctuation. I spend my dollar income by using a credit card on a US bank. Both US and UK credit cards are paid in full by standing order. I am too lazy to budget: I just watch the cash flow. Any month spending goes above income, I cut down. Any month spending is less than income I treat as a temporary abberation.
I envy my grandparents whose retirement cottage had a quarter of an acre on which they could grow all their fruit and vegetables. My own two bedroom terrace house is well insulated but fuel bills are my main concern. I have no car but live within a block of the town center of a medium-sized market town. My doctor has moved and a vist takes me 20 minutes each way if I make the effort of a fast pace no convenient bus link.
I find I can just afford a yearly visit to my son in Ohio and monthly rail visits to my elder daughter in Gloucestershire. My bus pass takes me weekly the 5 miles to my younger daughter. The western worlds' decision to prop up a failed banking system at the cost of social destruction through "austerity" I regard as the world's worst disaster since developing the atom bomb.
Just as Weimar's austerity produced Hitler, so our austerity will give us a UKIP government by , with a similar result. Why even bother printing this article, because it's such nonsense. Where did the writer glean his statistics? As a 'Guardian reader' I've never understood - until now - why the term is sometimes used in a derogatory sense. Has Andy ever made a trip to the supermarket himself, or does his mum, spouse or housekeeper shop for him, and he dreams on, oblivious to the realities of existence in this increasingly unequal and poverty stricken society?
In your rush to nip out and pick up your daily grande mocha frappaccino there goes the average persons daily food expenditure could you have possibly misread the stats, and are you quoting a single persons expenditure and not that of a family? Take your report What's that all about??? Most people in the UK can not make ends meet with one two or three jobs and on the 7th May the Tories are very much sacked, if not if we get them in in any form I will be exercising my right to move to a different European country I have had enough!!!
The UK is screwed Household spending is the amount of final consumption expenditure made by resident households to meet their everyday needs, such as food, clothing, housing rent , energy, transport, durable goods notably cars , health costs, leisure, and miscellaneous services.
Household spending including government transfers referred to as "actual individual consumption" in national accounts is equal to households' consumption expenditure plus those expenditures of general government and non-profit institutions serving households NPISHs that directly benefit households, such as health care and education. Household spending including government transfers is measured as a percentage of GDP.
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