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Concept selected: Total disposable household income

Definition

This is calculated by adding the income received by all the members of the household.

The disposable household income (net after taxes and social security contributions paid) includes:

- All income from work (wages of wage earners and income from self-employed workers)
- Capital and property income
- Transfers between households
- All the social benefits received in cash, including retirement pensions
- Income from private pension plans

The disposable household income does not include:

- Social benefits in kind
- Imputed rent
- Income in kind, with the exception of company cars
- Auto-consumption
- Tax on wealth

It is possible to find information broken down for each component of income in Commission Regulation (EC) no. 1980/2003, and in the EU-SILC guidelines.

Source

Living Conditions Survey (LCS). Methodology

Topic

Statistical operations

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