Income distribution of households; NA, 2005-2014
| Characteristics of households | Periods | Total amount Resources Social benefits in cash (mln euro) | Total amount Resources Social transfers in kind (mln euro) | Total amount Uses Net social contributions (mln euro) | Average amount Resources Social benefits in cash (1 000 euro) | Average amount Resources Social transfers in kind (1 000 euro) | Average amount Uses Net social contributions (1 000 euro) | Standardised amount Resources Social benefits in cash (1 000 euro) | Standardised amount Resources Social transfers in kind (1 000 euro) | Standardised amount Uses Net social contributions (1 000 euro) | Share in adjusted disposable income Resources Social benefits in cash (%) | Share in adjusted disposable income Resources Social transfers in kind (%) | Share in adjusted disposable income Uses Net social contributions (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2014 | 122,903 | 120,589 | 171,892 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 21.8 | 11.4 | 11.2 | 15.9 | 28.0 | 27.5 | 39.2 |
| Stand. disposable income: 1st 20%-group | 2014 | 20,136 | 22,167 | 7,448 | 12.8 | 14.1 | 4.7 | 10.4 | 11.4 | 3.8 | 42.3 | 46.5 | 15.6 |
| Stand. disposable income: 2nd 20%-group | 2014 | 25,676 | 27,259 | 14,572 | 16.3 | 17.3 | 9.3 | 12.7 | 13.4 | 7.2 | 37.8 | 40.1 | 21.5 |
| Stand. disposable income: 3rd 20%-group | 2014 | 24,103 | 24,338 | 27,948 | 15.3 | 15.5 | 17.7 | 11.0 | 11.1 | 12.8 | 29.8 | 30.1 | 34.5 |
| Stand. disposable income: 4th 20%-group | 2014 | 23,559 | 23,928 | 44,487 | 15.0 | 15.2 | 28.2 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 19.4 | 24.0 | 24.3 | 45.2 |
| Stand. disposable income: 5th 20%-group | 2014 | 29,430 | 22,899 | 77,437 | 18.7 | 14.5 | 49.2 | 12.5 | 9.8 | 33.0 | 20.4 | 15.9 | 53.8 |
| Single person household: male | 2014 | 14,782 | 8,613 | 17,787 | 11.1 | 6.5 | 13.4 | 11.1 | 6.5 | 13.4 | 39.3 | 22.9 | 47.3 |
| Single person household: female | 2014 | 21,530 | 17,213 | 11,822 | 14.5 | 11.6 | 8.0 | 14.5 | 11.6 | 8.0 | 43.0 | 34.3 | 23.6 |
| Single-parent household | 2014 | 7,841 | 10,476 | 7,584 | 14.7 | 19.7 | 14.2 | 10.0 | 13.4 | 9.7 | 26.2 | 35.0 | 25.4 |
| Couple with children household | 2014 | 19,737 | 47,383 | 72,808 | 9.9 | 23.7 | 36.4 | 5.3 | 12.6 | 19.4 | 11.3 | 27.1 | 41.7 |
| Couple without children household | 2014 | 51,728 | 28,690 | 56,510 | 23.8 | 13.2 | 26.0 | 17.4 | 9.6 | 19.0 | 40.9 | 22.7 | 44.7 |
| Multi-person household, n.e.c. | 2014 | 7,285 | 8,214 | 5,382 | 20.3 | 22.9 | 15.0 | 15.2 | 17.1 | 11.2 | 36.2 | 40.8 | 26.7 |
| Income from own enterprise | 2014 | 10,963 | 16,036 | 23,169 | 11.4 | 16.7 | 24.1 | 7.3 | 10.7 | 15.4 | 12.7 | 18.5 | 26.8 |
| Income from labour | 2014 | 21,396 | 54,178 | 120,122 | 5.6 | 14.1 | 31.2 | 3.8 | 9.6 | 21.4 | 9.7 | 24.5 | 54.3 |
| Income from old-age/survivors pens | 2014 | 65,975 | 38,366 | 21,826 | 32.0 | 18.6 | 10.6 | 26.9 | 15.6 | 8.9 | 70.0 | 40.7 | 23.1 |
| Income from other transfer income | 2014 | 24,570 | 12,009 | 6,775 | 24.6 | 12.0 | 6.8 | 20.2 | 9.9 | 5.6 | 66.9 | 32.7 | 18.5 |
| Main earner to 35 years | 2014 | 8,330 | 15,709 | 24,377 | 5.4 | 10.2 | 15.9 | 4.3 | 8.1 | 12.6 | 13.3 | 25.1 | 39.0 |
| Main earner 35 to 50 years | 2014 | 17,126 | 36,696 | 58,478 | 8.2 | 17.6 | 28.0 | 5.2 | 11.2 | 17.9 | 12.2 | 26.0 | 41.5 |
| Main earner 50 to 65 years | 2014 | 31,784 | 28,270 | 65,257 | 14.9 | 13.2 | 30.5 | 10.4 | 9.3 | 21.4 | 24.1 | 21.4 | 49.5 |
| Main earner: 65 years or older | 2014 | 65,663 | 39,914 | 23,780 | 31.1 | 18.9 | 11.3 | 25.8 | 15.7 | 9.4 | 63.4 | 38.6 | 23.0 |
| Living costs: Owner-occupied home | 2014 | 71,245 | 70,969 | 134,223 | 16.1 | 16.1 | 30.4 | 10.9 | 10.8 | 20.5 | 23.6 | 23.5 | 44.5 |
| Living costs: Rent with rent subsidy | 2014 | 20,440 | 20,834 | 6,260 | 16.6 | 16.9 | 5.1 | 13.5 | 13.8 | 4.1 | 45.6 | 46.5 | 14.0 |
| Living costs: Rent without rent subsidy | 2014 | 31,217 | 28,787 | 31,409 | 14.0 | 12.9 | 14.1 | 11.5 | 10.6 | 11.5 | 33.8 | 31.2 | 34.0 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||||||||
Table explanation
This table describes the income distribution of the sector households in the national accounts over different household groups. Households are identified by main source of income, living situation, household composition, age classes of the head of the household, income class by 20% groups.
Data available from: 2005 up to and including 2014.
Status of the figures:
The figures of 2005-2014 are final.
Changes as of June 22nd 2018:
None. This table has been discontinued.
Statistics Netherlands has carried out a revision of the national accounts. New statistical sources and estimation methods have been used during the revision. Therefore this table has been replaced by table Income distribution of households; National Accounts. For further information see section 3.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore.
Description topics
- Total amount
- Resources
- Resources are transactions which add to the economic value of sectors.
- Social benefits in cash
- Social benefits other than social transfers in kind is made up of three sub-headings:
- social security benefits in cash
- other social insurance benefits
- social assistance benefits in cash.
- Social transfers in kind
- Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Average amount
- Amount per household.
- Resources
- Resources are transactions which add to the economic value of sectors.
- Social benefits in cash
- Social benefits other than social transfers in kind is made up of three sub-headings:
- social security benefits in cash
- other social insurance benefits
- social assistance benefits in cash.
- Social transfers in kind
- Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Standardised amount
- Amount per household converted to a single-person household.
- Resources
- Resources are transactions which add to the economic value of sectors.
- Social benefits in cash
- Social benefits other than social transfers in kind is made up of three sub-headings:
- social security benefits in cash
- other social insurance benefits
- social assistance benefits in cash.
- Social transfers in kind
- Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Share in adjusted disposable income
- Percentage in gross adjusted disposable income
- Resources
- Resources are transactions which add to the economic value of sectors.
- Social benefits in cash
- Social benefits other than social transfers in kind is made up of three sub-headings:
- social security benefits in cash
- other social insurance benefits
- social assistance benefits in cash.
- Social transfers in kind
- Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
- Uses
- Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
- Net social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.