Ioana Amariei angrily returned from the square; he spent 150 lei on greens, bread, eggs and meat. He was buying a lot more things with the same money last year around this time.

The INS released its “family inflation” numbers on Wednesday: how much family incomes and expenses have risen and where most of our money is going. The data refer to the fall of 2022, when the average inflation was 15.4%.

Short:

The average monetary income (that is, without taking into account consumption from own resources or income in kind) of the family increased by 17%, and expenses – by almost 19%.

If we look at households made up of salaried workers, farmers, the unemployed or pensioners, their costs have increased at different rates. The expenses of families whose head is unemployed increased the most (expenditure growth was 34%, more than twice the rate of price growth)

The INS also calculated how much our consumer spending has increased and what our money is being spent on

In lei, consumer spending looks like this:

What else INS data shows:

• the main areas of household expenditure are the consumption of food, non-food goods, services and transfers to public and private administration and to social insurance budgets in the form of taxes, contributions, contributions, as well as covering some needs related to household production (animal feed and birds, wages for home production, products for planting, veterinary services, etc.).

• investment costs intended for the purchase or construction of houses, the purchase of land and equipment necessary for home production, the purchase of shares, etc. they have an insignificant share in the total expenses of households (only 1.2%).