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2018 Yearly Average
Released on 8 February 2019
Summary of Yearly Average Results
(1) Expenditures for Two-or-more-person Households
The yearly average of monthly consumption expenditures per household for 2018 was 287,315 yen, up 1.5% in nominal terms and up 0.3% in real terms from the previous year.
"Discontinuity-adjusted figures" was up 0.8% in nominal terms but down 0.4% in real terms from the previous year.
(2) Income and Expenditures for Workers' Households
The yearly average of monthly income per household stood at 558,718 yen, up 4.7% in nominal terms and up 3.5% in real terms from the previous year.
"Discontinuity-adjusted figures" was up 0.6% in nominal terms but down 0.6% in real terms from the previous year.
The yearly average of monthly consumption expenditures per household was 315,314 yen, up 0.7% in nominal terms but down 0.5% in real terms from the previous year.
"Discontinuity-adjusted figures" was down 0.3% in nominal terms and down 1.5% in real terms from the previous year.
Note:"Change over the year in %" of 2018 have been replaced by "discontinuity-adjusted figures", which are calculated to remove gaps influenced by the revision of account books.
