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Nuovo: Living standards statistics

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This articles focuses on living standards in the European Union (EU), as measured by the median equivalised disposable income. Living standards fell in 15 Member States in 2010 compared with a year earlier, after adjusting for inflation. In the vast majority of Member States the median income fell most for the unemployed and least for people in employment. Più ...

Aggiornato: Inflation in the euro area

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The data in this article show the most recent annual rates of change for the euro area headline inflation and its four main components issued by Eurostat. The figures presented are actual HICP figures. Più ...

Aggiornato: Government finance statistics - quarterly data

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In recent years Eurostat has significantly expanded the range of integrated quarterly data on government finances available, providing a timely and increasingly high quality picture of the evolution of government finances in the European Union (EU). The data presented in this article reflect both non-financial and financial (quarterly non-financial and financial accounts for general government) transactions and cover all European Union (EU-27) countries.

This article is based on data transmitted to Eurostat at the end of March and during April 2013 and includes data coverage of all four quarters quarters of 2012. It is supplemented by seasonally adjusted data estimated provided on a voluntary basis by EU and EFTA countries. Eurostat regularly publishes seasonally adjusted and working day adjusted quarterly data on government revenue, expenditure and surplus (+)/ deficit (-), currently for twelve Member States and the EU aggregates. Più ...

Nuovo: Impact of the economic crisis on maritime sectors

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Most EU maritime economic sectors suffered due to the economic crisis or following long-term trends. However, since 2009 some maritime sectors such as maritime transport and the seafood industry have started to recover. Più ...

Aggiornato: Tourism statistics - nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments

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This article focuses on the short-term evolutions in the nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the European Union (EU). The data for the most recent reference month available are compared with the same month of the previous year, in addition - and to smoothen fluctuations - data for a three months' period are compared with the same period one year earlier. Più ...

HICP - Frequent out-of-pocket purchases

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This article discusses 'frequent out-of-pocket purchases', or FROOPP for short, in the European Union (EU). FROOPP is a special aggregate of the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP). The HICP measures overall inflation - in other words how fast consumer prices are rising on average - based upon the whole of purchases that consumers usually make. FROOPP, however, deals with a more limited range of consumer prices, those of purchases made frequently - daily or weekly - and for small amounts, 'out-of-pocket'. For example a cup of coffee in a restaurant, the cost of a haircut, a bus ride or a weekly magazine.

The FROOPP indicator is important for understanding people's perceptions of inflation. Individuals often feel that inflation rate is higher than that announced by official statistics. Sometimes this is true, if their purchasing behaviour is not average, but often it is a perception they form. This is because their own judgement of inflation is governed more by everyday purchases (found in the FROOPP) than by less frequent purchases, such as electricity bills paid every three months, annual car insurance or television sets or cars bought infrequently. These less frequent purchases are called 'non out-of-pocket purchases' (non-FROOPP). Taken together, FROOPP and non-FROOPP make up the HICP. More...