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Development and changes in consumption expenditures of the population

2014; Mendel University Press; Volume: 56; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11118/actaun200856060167

2464-8310

Zuzana Toufarová, Klára Ondrášková,

Education, Psychology, and Social Research

The paper deals with development and changes in consumption expenditures of population.It uses secondary data to analyze consumption expenditures of EU-25 and the Czech Republic and concetrates on changes in the expenditure groups over the period of past years.Other part of this paper is devoted to primary data analysis.Primary data were obtained in a questionnaire survey.Primary data analysis is based on statistical methods and it investigates changes in the structure of consumption expenditures of households in relation to changes in household income.By using dependency analysis the paper verifi es dependency of surveyed groups of consumption expenditures and groups of households sorted by identifi cation characteristics.Additionally, also based on the primary research, the paper tries to fi nd out the way households allocate money surplus remaining a er covering all the adequate expenses.