Social transfers in kind, adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption of households in 2003

Social transfers in kind, adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption of "ordinary" households for the year 2003 are broken down according to four criteria : standard of living quintile, household composition, age of the head of the household and professional category of the head of the household.

Social transfers in kind are individual goods and services provided to households by general government units or non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs), free of charge or at prices that are not economically significant. They include:

• social benefits in kind that fall within the scope of social protection, i.e., market goods and services supplied directly by general government and those that recipient households purchase themselves and for which they are later reimbursed (medicines, healthcare, housing benefits);
• transfers of non-market individual goods and services, particularly education and health.

These services are valued at the sum of production costs.

Social transfers in kind are added to gross disposable income to form adjusted disposable income which takes into account all the types of income and allows to draw more accurate comparisons of the standards of living.

Likewise, social transfers in kind are added to final household consumption expenditures to form actual final consumption, which therefore includes all goods and services actually used or consumed, regardless of how they are paid for.

The breakdown of the social transfers in kind, adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption by category of households was carried out using several INSEE surveys relating to the households. These surveys refer only to the ordinary households resident in the french mainland. The resulting tables by category of households thus correspond to this scope. An additional table offers supplementary references on the field of the national accounts which includes the persons living in the overseas departments and the persons living in collective households.