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Households’ consumption on goods slightly increased in September (+0.1%) and over the third quarter (+0.2%)

In September, households’ expenditure on goods increased by 0.1% in volume*, after having declined by 0.8% in August. They increased by 0.2% over the third quarter (after a decline of similar magnitude during the second quarter). The slight increase of expenditure in September was attributable to the increase of expenditure on household durables.

[* Volumes are chained and all figures are trading days and seasonally adjusted.]

Engineered goods : near stability in September

Durables: increasing

Households’ expenditure on durables increased in September (+0.6% after -0.8% in August), notably driven up by household durables. Over the quarter, they slightly increased (+0.1%, after +1.0% in Q2). Despite a slight decrease in September (–0.2% after +0.5% in August), car purchases rose over the course of the third quarter (+0.8% after +0.7% in Q2).

Textile-leather: stable in September

Consumption of textile and leather remained stable in September (after –1.3% in August). It bounced by 3.9% in the third quarter after a 5.9% decrease over the second quarter.

Other engineered goods: increasing

Consumption expenditure on other engineered goods increased in September (+0.8%, after -0.3% in August), and slightly increased over the third quarter (+0.3%, after -0.2% in Q2). The overall growth is mainly driven by hardware purchases.

Total consumption of goods

Total consumption of goods

Food and engineered goods

Food and engineered goods

Decomposition of engineered goods

Decomposition of engineered goods

Food products: slighlty decreasing

In September, consumption of food products slighlty decreased (-0.1%, after -0.2% in August). It however increased by 0.7% during the third quarter (after -1.2% in Q2) thanks to the July growth carry-over.

Energy: decreasing

Households’ consumption of energy products kept decreasing in September (-0.4% after -2.1% in August). It decreased over the third quarter (-2.6% after +2.9% in Q2).

The evolution of household consumption in goods in August is not revised.

The decrease of household consumption in goods in January is still estimated at –0.8% as it was for the previous publication. Some slight revisions offset each other.

Energy

Energy
Households consumption expenditures on goods
In chained billion euros
July August Sept. Sept.12/ Q3 12/
2012 2012 2012 Sept.11 Q2 12
Food products 14.829 14.805 14.790
Change (%) 0.1 –0.2 –0.1 –0.8 0.7
Engineered goods 20.799 20.649 20.756
change (%) 0.6 –0.7 0.5 –0.1 0.9
Of which:
Automobiles 4.738 4.763 4.754
Change (%) 0.0 0.5 –0.2 –4.1 0.8
Household durables 5.225 5.106 5.192
Change (%) –0.1 –2.3 1.7 2.2 –0.5
Textile-leather 3.898 3.847 3.847
Change (%) 3.7 –1.3 0.0 0.5 3.9
Other engineered goods 5.972 5.956 6.000
Change (%) –0.2 –0.3 0.8 1.7 0.3
Energy 6.519 6.383 6.355
Change (%) 0.3 –2.1 –0.4 0.4 –2.6
Including petroleum products 4.004 3.871 3.880
Change (%) 0.3 –3.3 0.3 –0.1 –2.5
Total 42.124 41.800 41.849
Change (%) 0.4 –0.8 0.1 –0.3 0.2
Manufactured goods 36.501 36.184 36.271
Change (%) 0.4 –0.9 0.2 –0.5 0.7

Informations Rapides

n° 271 - October 31, 2012

Household consumption expenditure on goods - September 2012

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