Two kinds of estimations of household savings are done in this paper : - First we define saving as result of income minus consumption. To do that we use the national accounts to benchmark saving of the Household budget surveys (HBS). More particularly we use subjective information given by...

[eng] Household Savings from 1984 to 1995: Disparity and Diversity Studying household savings patterns requires individual - data. No specific surveys on household savings are available. However, the Family Budget survey collects data on household outgoings and incomings and can therefore be...

[fre] La pauvreté selon les ménages : une évaluation subjective et indexée sur leur revenu . Quelle signification se trouve conférée par les ménages à l'expression " subvenir à ses besoins ", telle qu'elle ressort du montant dont ils estiment nécessaire de disposer pour assurer la...