Families spending review, cuts even on bread and health - TG3web

03/08/2013

Into ECONOMY – Confindustria – 3,660 EUR, vanished a month and a half of fuel consumption. For the crisis will buy less in quantity and renounce to the quality

Strap ever closer. It’s not just the war on waste and unnecessary, but now, with the last wave of recession Italians also cut medical examinations and the purchase of bread. In 5 years, from 2007 to 2012, the average annual expenditure of households has fallen to € 26,100, € 3,660 less than in 2007: A month and a half of consumption vanished. Confindustria analyzes so the “spending review of Italian families” more and more narrow belt of quantity and quality, but now are sacrificed even the primary expenditures that were less affected in the first part of the crisis.

“The continuation of the economic crisis and the second recession in Italy from the second half of 2011 – indicate the economists of the study center on astronomy – have generated serious and profound effects on possibility of household spending. ” That are so forced to bite the bullet on causes “objective”, from lost jobs (690 thousand employed less between 2007 and 2012) and the increase in direct and indirect taxes, which have “worsened family budgets and reduced real disposable income by 11% between 2007 and 2012. ” Then weighs the decline in consumer confidence “at historic lows.”

So overall the final consumption expenditure back by 6.6% in real terms. A more having to tighten their belts, according to the report of Confindustria, are childless couples with a capofamigliatra 35 and 64 years old. and generally suffer more families of the south. How to change the spending habits of the Italians? Increases the reduction of unnecessary consumption, and race for discount at the expense of supermarkets and traditional shops, there is more attention to disc ounts and promotions, and a “gradual slipping over the scale of the price of branded products, to commercial, to those unbranded “. In short. unless you buy in quantity and also you give up on quality.

The families also buy less bread and cereals (-14.8% between 2007 and 2011 – year to which they refer to ISTAT data at the base of the deepening of the Csc – for a savings of 141 eurol’anno), and also reduced the cost of doctor visits (-25.3%, 110 € saved). in table less fish (13.2%), fruit (-8.3%), oil (-11.8%), mineral water (-15.1%), wine (-14.4%). but more beer (+4.2%).

falls spending on clothing (-23.1% to € 309), but also in furniture, pots, biancheria.e that in transport ( -17.1%) due to the decrease in purchases of cars (-19.2%) will buy fewer newspapers and magazines (30.6%), are less frequent meals away from home (8.2%), and collapsing the little luxuries of the average family: -65.6% per year for silverware, watches and jewelery, a saving of € 60. The spending habits change according to the type of family. in contrast, the only case of spending on the rise (although only 2.5%) is for lonely people over 65, who spend the most on domestic services (95 euro per year), meat purchases (86 euro), telephone charges (103 euro).

families suffer more and more. Over the past two years, indicating the CSC are “worse indicators of severe economic hardship and material deprivation of families” is salitodal 16% in 2010 to 24.8% in 2012, the number (almost a quarter) of people living in “deprived families”, from 6.9% to 14.3% in those families “severely deprived”.