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INS: 88 pc of population revenues allotted for expenditures

The total monthly average revenues of the population in the first quarter were RON 2,268 per household and RON 780 per person, 88 per cent of them, i.e. RON 1,996 per household and RON 687 per person, being allotted for expenditures, according to the data of the National Institute of Statistics (INS), Mediafax informs.

he money revenues amounted to an average of RON 1,863 monthly per household (RON 641 per person), while the revenues in kind were RON 405 monthly per household (RON 139 per person). The salaries and the other revenues associated to them represented the most important source of revenues (51.3 per cent of the total revenues of the households).

A contribution to the formation of the total revenues of the households also had the revenues from social operations, in a proportion of 23.5 per cent, the revenues from agriculture with 1.4 per cent, the revenues from independent non-agricultural activities, with 2,5 per cent, and from property and sales of assets from the patrimony of the household, with 0.1 per cent and, respectively, 1.9 per cent. Differences of level and, especially, of structure between the revenues of the households were registered subject to the residential environment. Thus, in the first three months, the total average revenues per household from the urban environment were 36.4 per cent bigger than those of the households from the rural environment, and 13.1 per cent bigger than the totality of the households.

The expenditures for investment, intended for the purchase or construction of dwellings, of lands and of equipment for the production of the household, the purchase of shares, etc. hold a smaller weight in the total expenditures of the population's households.

A component of consumption, with a relatively big weight in the expenditures, is connected with dwellings (water, electricity, natural gas, fuels, furniture, equipment and maintenance of the dwelling); in January-March 22.5 per cent of the consumer expenditures were allotted. Most of the expenditures incurred with the dwellings (18.4 per cent) were absorbed by the consumption of utilities.

The average net salary dropped 3.7 per cent in May

The net average salary was RON 1,356 in May, down 3.7 per cent, respectively RON 52, vs. the previous month, the biggest values being registered in air transports, and the smallest in hotels and restaurants, according to INS data. Compared to May 2008, the net average nominal salary rose 8.7 per cent.

Thus, the average net salary registered in air transports was RON 3,296, while the monthly salary received by the hotel and restaurant employees was RON 765, the values for this category remaining constant compared to April, reads a press release of the National Institute of Statistics. In May, the gross average nominal salary was RON 1,855, 3.9 per cent smaller than in the previous month.

The level of the net average salary fell in most of the economic activities compared to April, when occasional bonuses, namely on Easter, and sums from the net profit were granted, but also on the background of the smaller achievements in production in May. Compared to April, the biggest rises of the average net salary, of 11.3 per cent, were in the services related to the extraction activity, domain followed by the manufacturing of cocking products, and the products obtained from the processing of crude oil, with an advance of 6.7 per cent of the industrial activities - 4.8 per cent, and the extraction of crude oil and natural gas - 4.4 per cent.

The employment rate of the working age population was around 60 pc

In Q1 2009, the occupation rate of the working age population (15-64 years) was 57.4 per cent, while BIM unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent, reads the statistical research of labour in households (AMIGO) carried out by INS, according to Agerpres. The level of the occupation rate of the working age population is at a distance of 12.6 percentage points from the target of 70 per cent set for the year 2010 through the Lisbon Strategy.

In Q1 2009, the active population of Romania was 9,705 thousands persons, of whom 9,039 thousands persons were occupied and 666 thousands persons were BIM unemployed (persons aged 15-64, who fulfill simultaneously three conditions: they don't have a job, they are free to start working in the next two weeks, and they have been actively looking for a job, anytime in the last four weeks).

In order to make a comparison between the data from Romania and those from other states, INS informs that BIM unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent, up both compared to the previous quarter (5.8 per cent), and to the corresponding quarter from the previous year (6.3 per cent).

 

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