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Population in the National Accounts: distribution of people in income quintiles by labour market status

This dataset accompanies the tables ‘Household income and saving in the National Accounts: distributions by income quintile’ and ‘Household consumption in the National Accounts: distributions by income quintile’ and presents the number of individuals belonging to households in each quintile broken down by their labour market status.<br><br>

Households are grouped into income quintiles on the basis of their equivalised disposable income, ranked from lowest to highest, i.e., the first quintile represents the 20% households with the lowest equivalised disposable income and the fifth quintile the 20% households with the highest. Equivalisation means that results for each household have been recalculated on the basis of its consumption needs, in order to produce comparable results across households of different size and composition. <br><br>

The following labour market status groups are shown: a) unemployed, b) employee, c) employer, d) own-account worker, e) unpaid family worker, f) student, h) retired. Individuals are classified according to their main activity, which is the activity that they spend most of their time on.<br><br>

The default view of this table is for a single country (‘Reference area’ filter) and single year (‘Time period’ filter). In cases where countries appear to be greyed-out, data may be available for earlier years, and these can be selected by selecting a different start and end year in the ‘Time period’ filter. <br><br>

For more information on the (compilation of) these results, please see the <a href="https://www.oecd.org/sdd/na/household-distributional-results-in-line-with-national-accounts-experimental-statistics.htm"> webpage on household distributional results </a>.