Household budget survey
Do you want to know about consumption patterns of Danish households in general? Or in which region households spend the most on alcoholic beverages? You can see this in the Household budget survey, which covers the private consumption of Danish households in detail.
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A group of individuals who live together and share a high degree of financial interdependence, meaning they are economically dependent on one another.
Prices or price level that applies to goods and services in the current period. The opposite of current prices is fixed prices.
Selected statistics on Household budget survey
Annual consumption
The Household Budget Survey is calculated at household level, and is based on a combination of interviews and accounting of the participating households. All households are simply randomly selected.
In areas where data are already known through registers, data are taken from those registers. The survey used records from:
- Income Register
- CPR register
- BBR register
- Training Register and The Employment Classification Module
- Hospital Utililisation statistics
Consumption by region
The figures shows the average consumption in total for regions in Denmark.
The Household Budget Survey is calculated at household level, and is based on a combination of interviews and accounting of the participating households. All households are simply randomly selected.
In areas where data are already known through registers, data are taken from those registers. The survey used records from:
- Income Register
- CPR register
- BBR register
- Training Register and The Employment Classification Module
- Hospital Utililisation statistics
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The Household Budget Survey describes in detail the Danish households' expenditure on goods and services and the economic condition of the households. The statistics are used to compile weightings in the Consumer Price Index and for calculation of the private consumption in the National Accounts. The statistics were first compiled in 1897 and annually since 1994.