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Consumption of Personal Income

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The following tables show a further breakdown of the Personal Consumption of goods and services items from Expenditure.

X-axis label	Food, beverages and tobacco	Clothing and footwear	Housing	Fuel and power	Household equipment and operation	Transport and communication	Recreation, entertainment and education	Miscellaneous goods and services	Expenditure outside the state	Expenditure by non-residents
2017	18.1	3.7	18.8	2.9	4.7	14.4	7.7	26.8	5.4	-4.1

18.39430894308943.7601626016260219.10569105691062.947154471544724.7764227642276414.63414634146347.8252032520325227.23577235772365.48780487804878-4.16666666666667

Figure 8.1 above shows the contributions of each of the different types of expenditure to the total Personal consumption expenditure. Note that expenditure by non-residents is shown as negative as it is removed from our total. Looking at the total expenditure we can see that Housing accounts for 19%, Food, beverages and tobacco accounts for 18% and Transport and communication accounts for 15%.

X-axis label	Food, beverages and tobacco	Clothing and footwear	Housing	Fuel and power	Household equipment and operation	Transport and communication	Recreation, entertainment and education	Miscellaneous goods and services	Expenditure outside the state	Expenditure by non-residents
2016 - 2017	3.3	7.66901999645444	0.0668420653114676	-8.35029108925385	9.79386831876428	-0.835569875810338	-0.0213759533916003	2.85092220358383	1.65401488119006	3.07304061246774

Figure 8.2 above shows the percentage change in each of the components of Personal consumption expenditure in 2017. Most types of spending grew in 2017 with Housing equipment and operation growing 9.8% and Clothing and footwear rising 7.7%. However Fuel and power fell by 8.4% and Transport and communication declined by 0.8%.

Table 13 Consumption of Personal Income at Current Market Prices

Table 13 Consumption of Personal Income at Current Market Prices
						€ million
Description	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017 ¹
Food, beverages and tobacco	16,230	16,150	16,160	16,636	17,520	18,150
Food (excl. meals out)	7,508	7,487	7,271	7,576	7,802	7,790
Non-alcoholic beverages	667	789	766	778	854	810
Alcoholic beverages (total incl pubs)	6,157	6,226	6,499	6,502	7,060	7,306
Tobacco	1,898	1,647	1,625	1,780	1,804	2,244
Clothing and footwear	3,031	3,023	3,142	3,389	3,446	3,551
Housing (rent, local government charges, repairs and decorations)	14,661	15,108	15,962	17,179	18,789	20,197
of which imputed rent	10,165	10,498	11,122	12,017	12,954	13,909
Fuel and power (excluding motor fuels)	3,408	3,521	3,296	3,441	3,191	2,975
Household equipment and operation	3,494	3,672	4,237	4,331	4,257	4,526
Durable household goods	1,819	1,830	2,080	2,104	2,054	2,197
Non-durable goods and services	1,675	1,842	2,158	2,227	2,203	2,329
Transport and communication	12,810	12,459	13,284	13,938	14,522	14,579
Personal transport equipment	2,164	2,167	2,848	3,587	4,161	3,969
Operation of personal transport equipment (incl. motor fuels)	5,426	5,026	4,931	4,544	4,413	4,497
Public transport	3,004	3,112	3,255	3,480	3,665	3,838
Communication	2,216	2,153	2,250	2,326	2,283	2,275
Recreation, entertainment and education	7,361	7,360	7,330	7,566	7,747	7,687
Equipment and accessories	2,179	2,192	2,051	2,019	1,816	1,610
Services (incl. education)	5,182	5,168	5,279	5,547	5,931	6,077
Miscellaneous goods and services	22,019	23,004	23,884	24,706	26,051	26,894
Professional services (incl. medical goods and services)	9,982	10,351	10,565	11,444	12,168	13,388
Goods (n.e.s.)	3,210	2,807	2,887	3,243	3,727	3,009
Services (n.e.s.)	8,350	8,988	9,673	9,377	9,582	10,014
FISIM (financial services indirectly measured)	477	857	759	642	573	484
Expenditure outside the State	4,304	4,348	4,519	4,812	5,346	5,544
less Expenditure by non-residents	-2,493	-2,790	-3,069	-3,640	-3,961	-4,205
158. Personal consumption of goods and services at current market prices	84,825	85,855	88,745	92,358	96,908	99,897
159. Taxes on personal income and wealth	25,128	25,955	28,219	29,503	30,936	32,427
160. Total personal expenditure	109,953	111,810	116,965	121,861	127,844	132,324

¹Preliminary

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Table 13.1 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 13

Table 14 Consumption of Personal Income (except Taxes on Personal Income and Wealth) at Constant Market Prices (chain linked annually and referenced to year 2016)

Table 14 Consumption of Personal Income (except Taxes on Personal Income and Wealth) at Constant Market Prices (chain linked annually and referenced to year 2016)
						€ million
Description	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017 ¹
Food, beverages and tobacco	16,584	16,091	16,026	16,639	17,520	18,104
Food (excl. meals out)	7,179	7,079	7,027	7,485	7,802	7,919
Non-alcoholic beverages	647	766	753	777	854	821
Alcoholic beverages (total including pubs)	6,581	6,363	6,442	6,489	7,060	7,254
Tobacco	2,256	1,903	1,819	1,900	1,804	2,110
Clothing and footwear	2,672	2,744	2,949	3,305	3,446	3,710
Housing (rent, local government charges, repairs and decorations)	19,561	19,207	18,850	18,672	18,789	18,801
of which imputed rent	14,079	13,712	13,335	13,158	12,954	12,973
Fuel and power (excluding motor fuels)	3,165	3,163	2,924	3,248	3,191	2,925
Household equipment and operation	3,146	3,408	4,037	4,219	4,257	4,674
Durable household goods	1,478	1,570	1,892	1,999	2,054	2,353
Non-durable goods and services	1,669	1,845	2,149	2,222	2,203	2,320
Transport and communication	11,662	11,505	12,465	13,496	14,522	14,401
Personal transport equipment	1,918	1,978	2,679	3,466	4,161	4,126
Operation of personal transport equipment (including motor fuels)	4,477	4,253	4,279	4,309	4,413	4,282
Public transport	3,134	3,149	3,231	3,422	3,665	3,716
Communication	2,093	2,107	2,265	2,300	2,283	2,277
Recreation, entertainment and education	7,686	7,547	7,470	7,616	7,747	7,745
Equipment and accessories	1,892	1,977	1,919	1,946	1,816	1,782
Services (including education)	5,812	5,551	5,541	5,661	5,931	5,963
Miscellaneous goods and services	22,714	23,245	23,938	24,789	26,051	26,793
Professional services (including medical goods and services)	10,116	10,441	10,595	11,519	12,168	13,211
Goods (n.e.s.)	2,688	2,460	2,660	3,096	3,727	3,215
Services (n.e.s.)	9,115	9,692	10,070	9,596	9,582	9,811
FISIM (financial services indirectly measured)	833	727	688	607	573	556
Expenditure outside the State	4,547	4,482	4,600	4,900	5,346	5,435
less Expenditure by non-residents	-2,548	-2,825	-3,080	-3,666	-3,961	-4,082

161. Personal consumption of goods and services at constant market prices	88,595	88,074	89,925	93,172	96,908	98,505

¹Preliminary
Chain linked series not additive except for 2016 and 2017

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Table 14.1 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 14

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Table 13.1 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 13

Description	2012-2017	2012-2013	2013-2014	2014-2015	2015-2016	2016-2017
Food	0.7	-0.3	-2.9	4.2	3.0	-0.2
Non-alcoholic beverages	4.0	18.3	-3.0	1.6	9.8	-5.1
Alcoholic beverages	3.5	1.1	4.4	0.0	8.6	3.5
Tobacco	3.4	-13.2	-1.3	9.5	1.3	24.4
Clothing and footwear	3.2	-0.3	3.9	7.9	1.7	3.1
Housing	6.6	3.1	5.7	7.6	9.4	7.5
Fuel and power	-2.7	3.3	-6.4	4.4	-7.3	-6.8
Household equipment and operation	5.3	5.1	15.4	2.2	-1.7	6.3
Transport and communication	2.6	-2.7	6.6	4.9	4.2	0.4
Recreation, entertainment and education	0.9	-0.0	-0.4	3.2	2.4	-0.8
Miscellaneous goods and services	4.1	4.5	3.8	3.4	5.4	3.2
Expenditure outside the State	5.2	1.0	3.9	6.5	11.1	3.7
Expenditure by non-residents	11.0	11.9	10.0	18.6	8.8	6.2
Personal consumption of goods and services	3.3	1.2	3.4	4.1	4.9	3.1

Table 14.1 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 14

Description	2012-2017	2012-2013	2013-2014	2014-2015	2015-2016	2016-2017
Food	2.0	-1.4	-0.7	6.5	4.2	1.5
Non-alcoholic beverages	4.9	18.4	-1.8	3.2	9.9	-3.9
Alcoholic beverages	2.0	-3.3	1.2	0.7	8.8	2.8
Tobacco	-1.3	-15.6	-4.4	4.5	-5.1	16.9
Clothing and footwear	6.8	2.7	7.4	12.1	4.3	7.7
Housing	-0.8	-1.8	-1.9	-0.9	0.6	0.1
Fuel and power	-1.6	-0.1	-7.5	11.1	-1.8	-8.4
Household equipment and operation	8.2	8.3	18.5	4.5	0.9	9.8
Transport and communication	4.3	-1.3	8.3	8.3	7.6	-0.8
Recreation, entertainment and education	0.2	-1.8	-1.0	2.0	1.7	-0.0
Miscellaneous goods and services	3.4	2.3	3.0	3.6	5.1	2.9
Expenditure outside the State	3.6	-1.4	2.6	6.5	9.1	1.7
Expenditure by non-residents	9.9	10.8	9.0	19.0	8.0	3.1
Personal consumption of goods and services	2.1	-0.6	2.1	3.6	4.0	1.6

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