Household Production and Consumption in Finland 2001

Table 9.
Percentage of household types in income quintiles
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Households
in population
Single-person
households
under 45 yrs 26 17 17 5 1 13
45–64 yrs 1916 12 6 2 11
65 yrs or over 40 194 1 0 13
Couples without
children whose
reference person
under 45 yrs 3 6 914 9 8
45–64 yrs 2 5 14 21 24 13
65 yrs or over 1 16 14 6 3 8
Families with
children, with
one parent, youngest child
0–17 yrs 5 6 4 1 1 3
two parents, youngest child
0–6 yrs 1 5 10 21 17 11
two parents, youngest child
7–17 yrs 1 2 7 14 28 10
Other households 2 7 911 15 9
% 100 100 100 100 100 100
Households were also grouped into income quintiles according to gross
household income. Table 9 shows how different household types break down
into the five income quintiles formed. It seems that the age of the reference
person and the number of income-earners have an influence on the income
quintile to which a household belongs.
The lowest income quintile seems to consist almost exclusively of people
living alone. In the second income quintile, too, single-person households and
pensioners make up the majority. The biggest group in the third income
quintile are young people living alone as well as couples over 45. The fourth
income quintile consists primarily of childless couples of working age and
two-parent families with children. The fifth income quintile differs from the
previous quintile in that instead of younger couples, it has a larger number of
adult households, i.e. other households, and furthermore the proportion of
families with school-age children is much greater than in the fourth income
quintile.
48 Statistics Finland National Consumer Research Centre