30 September 2011
2011- n° 235In July and August, households’ consumption in goods stabilized (–0.2% followed by
+0.2%) Household consumption expenditure on goods - July-August 2011
In August, households’ expenditure in goods increased by 0.2% in volume*, after having decreased by –0.2% in July. The slight decrease in July is mainly imputable to a decrease of car purchases and household durables. The increase in car purchases and energy expenditure contributes to the slight increase in August .
In August, households’ expenditure in goods increased by 0.2% in volume*, after having decreased by –0.2% in July. The slight decrease in July is mainly imputable to a decrease of car purchases and household durables. The increase in car purchases and energy expenditure contributes to the slight increase in August .
[* Volumes are chained and all figures are trading days and seasonally adjusted.]
Engineered goods : decreasing
Durables : decreasing in July, stable in August
After a decrease in July (–0.8%), households’ expenditure in durables were stable in August. This is due to a bounce in car purchases in August (+0.9%) after a decrease in July(–1.5%) imputable to the secondhand market. On the other hand, after a sharp increase in June (+3.9%), purchases in household durables decreased again in July ( –0.7%) and August (–1.7%). The decrease concerns particularly purchases in furniture.
Textile-leather : decreasing
Purchases in textile and leather remained dynamic in July (+1.0% after +3.6% in June) but decreased in August (-2.3%).
Other engineered goods : stability
The slight increase of expenditures in other engineered goods in July (+0.2%) is balanced by a decrease of the same scale in August (–0.2%), notably due to a decrease in hardware consumption.
Food products : back to stability
Households’ expenditure in food products slightly decreased in July (–0.4%), then stabilized in August (+0.1%).
Energy : increasing
After a slight increase in July (+0.2%), consumption of energy products accelerated in August (+2.6%), in particular for petroleum products.
tableautab1_eng – Households consumption expenditures in goods
| Juin | Juillet | Août | Août 11/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2011 | 2011 | Août.10 | |
| Food products | 14.619 | 14.560 | 14.576 | |
| Change (%) | –0.4 | –0.4 | 0.1 | –0.1 |
| Engineered goods | 20.642 | 20.608 | 20.495 | |
| change (%) | 1.7 | –0.2 | –0.5 | 0.2 |
| Of which: | ||||
| Automobiles | 4.727 | 4.658 | 4.699 | |
| Change (%) | 0.3 | –1.5 | 0.9 | –1.0 |
| Household durables | 5.206 | 5.171 | 5.086 | |
| Change (%) | 3.9 | –0.7 | –1.7 | 2.0 |
| Textile-leather | 4.026 | 4.066 | 3.971 | |
| Change (%) | 3.6 | 1.0 | –2.3 | –0.1 |
| Other engineered goods | 5.719 | 5.730 | 5.721 | |
| Change (%) | 0.7 | 0.2 | –0.2 | 0.7 |
| Energy | 6.487 | 6.501 | 6.669 | |
| Change (%) | 1.6 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 1.1 |
| Including petroleum products | 3.984 | 4.051 | 4.154 | |
| Change (%) | 1.2 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 1.1 |
| Total | 41.698 | 41.619 | 41.718 | |
| Change (%) | 0.9 | –0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Manufactured goods | 36.215 | 36.101 | 36.132 | |
| Change (%) | 1.0 | –0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
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