Compared to the second quarter of the previous year, the total monthly average income per household increased by 10.7% and the total monthly average income per person increased by 11.6%.
In Q2/2023, the total monthly average expenditure of the population was RON5,969 per household (RON2,392 per person) and accounted for 86.4% of the total income, a decrease of only RON2 per household compared to Q1/2023. Compared to the second quarter of the previous year, the total monthly average expenditure per household increased by 11.1% and the total monthly average expenditure per person increased by 12.0%.
In Q2/2023, the monthly average money income was RON6,427 per household (RON2,576 per person), increasing by 1.0% compared to Q1/2023, and the in-kind income was RON484 monthly per household (RON194 per person), decreasing by 21.4% compared to Q1/2023. Salaries and other income related to them amounted to 4604 lei monthly per household and were the most important source of total income (66.6% of the total household income, increasing by 1.7 percentage points compared to QI 2023). Significant contributions to the formation of the total household income were made by the income from social benefits, with RON1,440 monthly per household (20.8% in Q2/2023 and 21.3% in Q1/2023, respectively, of the total household income), and by the in-kind income (7.0% in Q2/2023 and 8.8% in Q1/2023, respectively), which consists of the value of the in-kind income obtained by employees and recipients of social benefits (1.5% in Q2/2023 and 1.9% in Q1/2023, respectively) and the value in lei of the food and non-food products consumed from own resources (5.5% in Q2/2023 and 6.9% in Q1/2023, respectively).
As regards the area of residence, the level of the total monthly average income per household in Q2/2023 was RON7,857 in the urban area, 1.4 times more than in the rural area, and the income per person was RON3,358 lei, 1.6 times more than in the rural area. In terms of the structure of the total income, in QII 2023, in the urban area, the share of gross salaries and other salary rights in the total income was 72.6%, i.e. 16.2 percentage points more than in the rural area, while, in the rural area, the income from social benefits accounted for 22.8%, higher by 3.1 percentage points than in the urban area. The share of the in-kind income was 11.8%, i.e. 2.8 times greater than in the urban area.
In Q2/2023, the monthly average money expenditure was RON5,589 per household (RON2,240 per person), 1.9% higher than in Q1/2023.
The equivalent value of the consumption of food and non-food products from own resources was, on average, RON380 monthly per household (RON152 per person) in Q2/2023, decreasing by 21.7% compared to Q1/2023.
In Q2/2023, the main purposes of the expenditure incurred by households are consumption (money expenditure and the equivalent value of the human consumption of food from own resources), with RON3,675 lei monthly per household (61.6%), and the transfers to public and private administration and to social insurance budgets in the form of taxes, contributions, dues, with RON1,891 per household (31.7%), as well as the meeting of needs related to household production (money expenditure and the equivalent value of the fodder-related consumption from own resources), with RON116 per household (1.9%).
Depending on the area of residence, there are differences in the level of the total monthly average expenditure. In the urban area, the monthly average expenditure per household was RON6,778, i.e. 1.4 times higher than in the rural area. This means that one person from the urban area spent, on average, 2897 lei monthly, 1.6 times more than one person from the rural area. In terms of the structure of the total expenditure, in the urban area, the share of the expenditure on taxes, contributions, dues and fees in the total expenditure was 34.9%, i.e. 8.7 percentage points more than in the rural area, while, in the rural area, the share of the equivalent value of the consumption of food and non-food products from own resources in the total expenditure was 11.7%, i.e. 3.7 times higher than in the urban area.
According to the standard Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP), food and non-alcoholic beverages, amounting to RON1,368 per household, had a significant share in the total consumption expenditure of households (37.2%). These are followed, in terms of size, by the monthly expenditure on the dwelling, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, amounting to RON519 per household, with a share of 14.1% in the total monthly average consumption expenditure, and by the expenditure on alcoholic beverages and tobacco and the expenditure on clothing and footwear, each of them amounting to RON277 per household, with a share of 7.5% each in the total monthly average consumption expenditure. The lowest level of expenditure was that incurred on education, with RON18 per household (0.5% of the total monthly average consumption expenditure), as well as that on insurance and financial services, with RON26 per household (0.7% of the total monthly average consumption expenditure).