Population in the National Accounts: distributions by main source of income

This dataset accompanies the tables ‘Household income and saving in the National Accounts: distributions by main source of income’ and ‘Household consumption in the National Accounts: distributions by main source of income’ and presents the number of households, individuals, and consumption units for each main source of income category.



The main source of income is the income item that makes the largest contribution to the income of the household. Four categories are shown: wages and salaries, income from self-employment, net property income (mainly interest, dividends and rent), and current transfers received such as social benefits and social transfers in kind.



Results per consumption unit are obtained by dividing each household’s result by the number of consumption units, reflecting its consumption needs, for example by applying the standard OECD-modified equivalence scale, counting the first adult as 1, any additional people aged 14 and over as 0.5 and all children under 14 as 0.3.



The default view of this table is for a single country (‘Reference area’ filter) and single year (‘Time period’ filter). In cases where countries appear to be greyed-out, data may be available for earlier years, and these can be selected by selecting a different start and end year in the ‘Time period’ filter.



For more information on the (compilation of) these results, please see the webpage on household distributional results .