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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 2018 total expenditures and total revenues for General government grew respectively by 0.2% and 1.3% compared with the same quarter of the previous year. The increase of total expenditures results from an increase by 0.6% in current expenditures and a fall by 6.6% in total capital expenditures. The growth in total revenues reflects the increase in current revenues and the reduction in capital revenues.

The General government deficit (net borrowing) to GDP ratio was 3.5% in the first quarter of 2018, compared with 4.0% in the first quarter of 2017.

Consumer households

In the first quarter of 2018 gross disposable income of Consumer households increased by 0.2% with respect to the previous quarter and final consumption expenditure increased by 0.8%. Compared with the first quarter of 2017 gross disposable income of Consumer households went up by 1.6% and final consumption expenditure by 1.7%. Gross disposable income of Consumer households in real terms decreased by 0.2% compared with the previous quarter, and increased by 0.7% compared with the first quarter of 2017.

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 7.6%, compared with 8.1% in the previous quarter and 7.7% in the first quarter of 2017.

The gross investment rate of Consumer households (defined as gross fixed capital formation divided by gross disposable income) was 5.9% in the first quarter of 2018, unchanged with respect to both the previous quarter and the same quarter of 2017.

Non-financial corporations

Gross profit share of Non-financial corporations (defined as gross operating surplus divided by gross value added) was 41.6% in the first quarter of 2018, compared to 41.5% in the previous quarter and 41.9% in the first quarter of 2017.

Gross investment rate of Non-financial corporations (defined as gross fixed capital formation divided by gross value added) was 21.3% in the first quarter of 2018, compared with 22% in the previous quarter and 20.4% in the first quarter of 2017.

Reference period: First quarter 2018

Date of Issue: 28 June 2018

Next release: 3 October 2018

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Quarterly accounts for General Government and
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