During and shortly after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns were expressed that working from home (WFH) was creating a 'mental health crisis'. Australia experienced a three-phase 'WFH experiment', with widespread high-intensity WFH imposed by lockdowns in 2020, deepened restrictions...

The fifth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) offers an updated and comprehensive view of Maltese households' financial position in the post-pandemic period. Based on microdata collected for 2023, this edition introduces two analytical dimensions: in addition to the...

Obtaining comparable poverty estimates over time is critical for monitoring poverty trends and informing effective poverty reduction policies. Yet hardly any developing countries could construct consistent poverty trends over extended time periods due to changes to the consumption survey...

Estimates of poverty in India post-2011/12 are subject to heated public and scholarly debate. The first official, nationally representative consumption survey after 2011/12 to be publicly released pertains to 2022/23. While this survey was also administered and fielded by India's National Sample...

Consumption taxes are a crucial revenue source for EU Member States, yet they also potentially have non-negligible impact on income distribution. The EU's tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD, has recently been extended to simulate consumption taxes (CT) across all 27 EU countries allowing...

By comparing the Bundesbank's BOP-HH and the ECB's CES-ECB household panel surveys focusing on inflation perceptions and expectations with omnibus surveys conducted in Germany in December 2021 and 2022, this paper examines potential sample selection bias stemming from (i) individuals'...

This Special Eurobarometer survey is the fourth on this topic, following the ones respectively in June 2016, in June/July 2018, and finally in March/April 2021. This September/October 2024 survey constitutes a continuation of the aforementioned editions by replicating some questions previously...

This Special Eurobarometer survey is the fourth on this topic, following the ones respectively in June 2016, in June/July 2018, and finally in March/April 2021. This September/October 2024 survey constitutes a continuation of the aforementioned editions by replicating some questions previously...

This paper uses household survey data from 27 countries to assess sex-differentiated access to social protection programs and their impact on mitigating gender gaps in the labor market. The analysis includes indicators of coverage, distribution of social protection recipients, and adequacy of...

The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) collects data on households' wealth, income and consumption across the euro area. This report describes how households were selected and interviewed, and how the data were processed in the 2023 survey wave in Austria. Its main...

Equivalence scales are central to distributional analysis, adjusting household incomes for size and composition and shaping poverty and inequality measurement. Despite changes in consumption patterns, most applied work continues to rely on the modified OECD scale from the 1990s. We revisit...

This paper surveys what we have learned on financial literacy and its relation to financial behavior from data collected in the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) Household Survey, a project done in collaboration with academics. A pioneering survey fielded in 2005 included an extensive set of financial...

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...

We estimate the dynamic effects of a high-frequency identified unionwide quantitative easing (QE) shock on real GDP, inflation and unemployment in all euro area countries. We document that the effects of QE are very heterogenous across countries as regards size, significance and timing,...

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...

Food insecurity has become of increasing concern following the economic downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent sharp rise in inflation, including food price inflation. To better understand the conditions of food insecurity and the impacts of inflation and other drivers of food...

Since the end of inheritance and gift tax in 2008, there has been hardly any data on the distribution and volume of inheritances in Austria. Voluntary household surveys capture past inheritances, but there is a lack of current values as well as forecasts on the future development of...