28 June 2013
2013- n° 148In May 2013, households consumption of goods increased (+0.5%) Household consumption expenditure on goods - May 2013
In May, households expenditure on goods increased by 0.5% in volume*, after a 0.5% decrease in April. This increase was mainly attributable to a bounce in food products.
In May, households expenditure on goods increased by 0.5% in volume*, after a 0.5% decrease in April. This increase was mainly attributable to a bounce in food products.
Engineered goods : slightly increasing
Durables: increasing again
After an increase in April (+1.3%), households expenditure on durable goods increased while slowing down in May (+0.4%). Expenditure on cars increased again in May (+0.9%, after +2.0% in April). However, purchases in household durables slightly decreased (–0.1%, after +0.4%), especially furniture purchases.
Textile-leather: decreasing
Households consumption of textile and leather decreased anew in May (–1.5%), after a slight bounce in April (+1.5%).
Other engineered goods: increasing
Consumption expenditure on other engineered goods slightly increased accelerated in May (+0.8% after +0.4% in April). In particular, hardware purchases picked up.
[* Volumes are chained and all figures are trading days and seasonally adjusted.]
graphiquegraph1_new_ang – Total consumption of goods
graphiquegraph2_new_ang – Food and engineered goods
graphiquegraph3_new_ang – Decomposition of engineered goods
Food products: bounce
After a very strong increase in March (+2.6%) followed by a fall in April (–3.4%), developments which could be linked to an early Easter, consumption of food products bounced in May (+1.4%).
Energy: slighlty decreasing
After four consecutive months of increase, linked to below average temperatures, households consumption of energy products weakened in May (–0.3%).
The April decrease is scaled down by 0.2 point
The decrease in consumption of goods in April is now estimated at –0.5%, instead of –0.3% for the previous publication.
These revisions are mainly due to the integration of new information and to the reestimation of calendar and seasonal adjustment models, especially in energy expenditures.
tableautab1_eng – Households consumption expenditures on goods
March | April | May | May 13/ | |
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2013 | 2013 | 2013 | May 12 | |
Food products | 15.104 | 14.591 | 14.799 | |
Change (%) | 2.6 | –3.4 | 1.4 | 0.6 |
Engineered goods | 20.040 | 20.249 | 20.279 | |
Change (%) | –1.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | –1.7 |
Of which: | ||||
Automobiles | 4.303 | 4.391 | 4.430 | |
Change (%) | –2.2 | 2.0 | 0.9 | –4.4 |
Household durables | 5.300 | 5.321 | 5.317 | |
Change (%) | 1.8 | 0.4 | –0.1 | 2.9 |
Textile-leather | 3.629 | 3.684 | 3.627 | |
Change (%) | –4.3 | 1.5 | –1.5 | –7.9 |
Other engineered goods | 5.940 | 5.965 | 6.011 | |
Change (%) | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
Energy | 6.629 | 6.745 | 6.722 | |
Change (%) | 3.5 | 1.8 | –0.3 | 6.4 |
Including petroleum products | 3.966 | 4.077 | 4.122 | |
Change (%) | 4.2 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 7.4 |
Total | 41.873 | 41.667 | 41.883 | |
Change (%) | 1.2 | –0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
Manufactured goods | 35.903 | 35.687 | 36.027 | |
Change (%) | 1.0 | –0.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
graphiquegraph4_new_ang – Energy
Documentation
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