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Underestimating housing consumption in the national accounts
It's not just household-level data such as the SILC where our approaches to the provision of social housing present measurement issues. In the
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The level and distribution of income in Ireland in the 2020 SILC
Eurostat have 2020 figures for Ireland to the EU-SILC, the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Ireland is one of the last countries
Household savings and the changes in aggregate income during the pandemic
The CSO have published the Q2 2021 update of the Non-Financial Institutional Sector Accounts. Here we will focus on the household sector (which in
The household sector in 2020
The CSO have published the Q4 2020 update of the non-financial Institutional Sector Accounts. While there may be some revisions when the annual
The household sector in 2020
The CSO have published the Q4 2020 update of the non-financial Institutional Sector Accounts. While there may be some revisions when the annual
The convergence of urban-rural incomes in the SILC
In recent years, the Survey of Income and Living Conditions has shown remarkable improvements for Irish households with significant rises in income
The position of the household sector as we entered the crisis
Last week, the CSO published the 2019 Financial and Non-Financial Institutional Sector Accounts. Obviously, with the emergence of COVID-19 this is
The serene progression of household disposable income (and the chaos beneath it)
The CSO have published the Q2 update of the Institutional Sector Accounts. It was worth the days’ delay for what are a pretty remarkable set of
Improvement in net worth per capita stalls
There are lots of things that can go on a national balance sheet. National accounts can give one perspective. As set out in a previous post there
Where stands the crisis of 2020? Some insights from a century of leading and lagging indicators
The Irish economy is no stranger to crisis. Since the 1950s, the most severe of these have occurred in roughly 25-year intervals. The current
International travel restrictions and the location of consumption spending
With COVID19 all countries are going through the same crisis but not all countries will experience the crisis in the same way. International travel
The strong position of the household sector (and the poor case for helicopters)
A couple of weeks ago the CSO published the Q4 2019 update of the Institutional Sector Accounts. This is one of the most useful from the suite of
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Does Ireland really have the lowest per capita consumption of housing in the EU15?
Last week Eurostat published their first estimate of Actual Individual Consumption for 2018. What is unusual about AIC from an Irish perspective is
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What do we do with €112 billion of annual savings?
Last week the CSO published the Q4 update of the (non-financial) Institutional Sector Accounts. These are a great source of information on what is
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Reducing the legacy debts of the credit bubble
The information provided in the annual accounts of the banks allows us to observe developments in the remaining stock of debt from the loans that