30 June 2011
2011- n° 163In May, households’ consumption in goods decreased again (-0.8%) Household consumption expenditure on goods - May 2011
In May, households’ expenditure in goods decreased by 0.8% in volume*, after having stepped back by –1.4% in April. This decrease is mainly imputable to a decrease of food products and engineered goods, in particular textile and leather products. On the other hand, energy expenditure markedly bounced.
In May, households’ expenditure in goods decreased by 0.8% in volume*, after having stepped back by –1.4% in April. This decrease is mainly imputable to a decrease of food products and engineered goods, in particular textile and leather products. On the other hand, energy expenditure markedly bounced.
[* Volumes are chained and all figures are trading days and seasonally adjusted.]
Engineered goods :
Durables : slightly decreasing
After a sharp decrease in April (–6.4%), households’ expenditure in durables slightly decreased in May (–0.6%). This decrease is due to a step back in car purchases of lesser extend than that of April (–1.8% after –10.3%). Household durables decreased again in May (–0.4%, after –1.9% in March).
Textile-leather : sharp decrease in May
In May, purchases in textile and leather sharply decreased (–4.4%) after an increase in April (+1.6%).
Other engineered goods : marked step back
Expenditures in other engineered goods decreased in May (–1.3%) after a slight increase in April (+0.3%). The overall decrease is mainly imputable to a sharp step back of hardware products expenditure. This year’s calendar for May (May 1st and 8th being on Sundays, and Whitsun and Ascension Day in June) was less favorable to such expenses.
Food products : increasing
Energy : back to normal
Consumption of energy products bounced in May (+3.4% after –3.4% in April). After mild weather conditions in April, which tempered the need for heating energy, households’ consumption went back to normal in May.
tableautab1_eng – Households consumption expenditures in goods
| March | April | May | May 11/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2011 | 2011 | May 10 | |
| Food products | 14.694 | 14.898 | 14.648 | |
| Change (%) | –0.8 | 1.4 | –1.7 | 0.0 |
| Engineered products | 21.136 | 20.522 | 20.198 | |
| change (%) | –1.0 | –2.9 | –1.6 | –1,5 |
| Of which: | ||||
| Automobiles | 5.293 | 4.746 | 4.661 | |
| Change (%) | –1.9 | –10.3 | –1.8 | –3.4 |
| Household durables | 5.100 | 5.001 | 4.981 | |
| Change (%) | –0.6 | –1.9 | –0.4 | –2.4 |
| Textile-leather | 3.954 | 4.019 | 3.840 | |
| Change (%) | –2.1 | 1.6 | –4.4 | 0.0 |
| Other engineered goods | 5.743 | 5.761 | 5.686 | |
| Change (%) | 0.1 | 0.3 | –1.3 | 0.7 |
| Energy | 6.349 | 6.135 | 6.341 | |
| Change (%) | –0.8 | –3.4 | 3.4 | –6.5 |
| Including petroleum products | 3.906 | 3.764 | 3.891 | |
| Change (%) | –1.3 | –3.6 | 3.4 | –7.8 |
| Total | 42.082 | 41.485 | 41.151 | |
| Change (%) | –0.9 | –1.4 | –0.8 | –1.8 |
| Manufactured goods | 36.710 | 36.275 | 35.744 | |
| Change (%) | –0.9 | –1.2 | –1.5 | –1.0 |
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