Families with children spend 44% of families without children. Are 658 euros per month – Daily News – Lisbon

the INE Survey shows that households spend 60% of income with housing, transport, and power

housing, transport and food products lead to most of the budget of Portuguese families – account for 60.9% of the expenditure. The data are from the Expenditure Survey of Households 2015/2016 and still show that the average annual spending of families with children “is 44% higher, which corresponds to a difference monthly of 658 euros.

According to the document now released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the annual expenditure of the average household was of 20 916 euros. But in families with dependent children the average annual spending rises to 25 892€, or 44% of the families without dependent children (17 997). There is a difference monthly of 658 euros.

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Additionally, between 2010/2011 and 2015/2016, while families without dependent children have increased their annual expenditure on average by 7.7 percentage points, those with children have decreased the annual expenditure on average at about 3.3 points.

Regarding the pattern of annual expenditure, there are also differences: families without children spend more on housing (34,3%) than families with children (28,8%), and least in education (by 0.7% vs. 4,0%) and in transport (13,5% vs. 16,1%).

In 2015/2016, in the data overall, the expenditure on housing (31,8%), transport (14.7 per cent) and food products (by 14.4%) accounted for the largest share of the average expenditure of households, for a total 60.9%.

the results of The survey indicate that the evolution of expenditure average annual household corresponds, in nominal terms, an increase of 2.6%, and in volume (constant prices) a decrease of 4.2%.

In volume, the average expenditure of households decreased between 2010/2011 and 2015/2016, the document reads.

Lisbon is the only region above the national average

The value of annual expenditure on average in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon extends beyond the average spending in the country, in about 14.6%.

At the opposite extreme are the Azores, Alentejo and Madeira, which have an annual spending average much lower than the one verified at the national level, highlighting the “asymmetry registered in the Autonomous Region of the Azores (-17,9%). Alentejo has -14,4% and the Autonomous Region of Madeira has -11,7%.