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Quarterly non-financial accounts for General Government, households income and savings and non-financial corporation profits

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Data presented in this press release are derived from Quarterly non-financial accounts by institutional sector (QSA), that include Quarterly non-financial General government account. QSA are estimated at current prices and expressed in millions of euro. Data for Consumer households and Non-financial corporations are presented in seasonally adjusted form. Data for the General government are not seasonally adjusted.

General government account

In the first quarter of 2017 total expenditures and total revenues for General government grew respectively by 0.8% and 2% compared with the first quarter of the previous year. The increase of total expenditures results from an increase of 0.9% in current expenditures and a fall by 1.6% in total capital expenditures. The increase in total revenues is due to the growth of current taxes on income and wealth, taxes on production and imports and social contributions. In the first
quarter of 2017 the contribution of the Banks to the Single Resolution fund has been recorded.

The General government deficit (net borrowing) to GDP ratio was 4.3% in the first quarter of 2017, compared with the 4.9% in the first quarter of 2016.

Consumer households

In the first quarter of 2017 gross disposable income of Consumer households increased by 1.5% with respect to the previous quarter and final consumption expenditure by 1.3%. Compared with the first quarter of 2016 gross disposable income of Consumer households raised by 2.4% and final consumption expenditure by 2.6%. Gross disposable income of Consumer households in real terms increased by 0.8% compared with the previous quarter, and by 1.2% compared with the first quarter of 2016.

The gross saving rate of Consumer households (defined as gross saving divided by gross disposable income, the latter being adjusted for the change in the net equity of households in pension funds reserves) was 8.5% in the
first quarter of 2017, compared with 8.2% in the previous quarter and 8.6% in the first quarter of 2016.

The gross investment rate of Consumer households (defined as gross fixed capital formation divided by gross disposable income) was 6.1% in the first quarter of 2017, unchanged with respect to the previous quarter and 0.1 percentage points higher than the first quarter of 2016 (6.0%).

Non-financial corporations

Gross profit share of Non-financial corporations (defined as gross operating surplus divided by gross value added) was 42.0% in the first quarter of 2017, unchanged with respect to the previous quarter (42.0%) and 0.3 percentage points higher than in the first quarter of 2016 (41.7%).

Gross investment rate of Non-financial corporations (defined as gross fixed capital formation divided by gross value added) was 19.9% in the first quarter of 2017, compared with 20.4% in the previous quarter and 19.3% in the first quarter of 2016.

Reference period: First quarter 2017

Date of Issue: 30 June 2017

Next release: 3 October 2017

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The documents published before April, 4 2016 are available in the archives of
Quarterly accounts for General Government and
Households income and savings and profits