French household consumption excluding sole proprietorships
French household consumption excluding sole proprietorships stood at 1,995 EUR million in Q2 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Household and corporate accounts table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q1 1949 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Household and corporate accounts table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
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| Households | |||||||||||
| Intermediate consumption of households excluding sole proprietorships - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series | 1,995 | 2,126 | 1,754 | 1,943 | 1,482 | 891 | 218 | -1,944 | -1,522 | -3,950 | |
| Gross fixed capital formation of households (including sole proprietorships) - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series | 37,711 | 37,539 | 37,981 | 37,767 | 37,468 | 37,138 | 36,799 | 36,607 | 36,946 | 37,854 |
Understanding french household consumption excluding sole proprietorships
Consumer households and residential property owners incur these intermediate costs in the course of maintaining dwellings and managing non-business properties, excluding all commercial sole proprietorship activities. This metric isolates the operational outlays tied to housing upkeep, minor repairs, and services consumed by occupants that do not stem from a registered independent business. The scope focuses on residential maintenance inputs rather than market goods bought for resale or professional trade.
Reading these maintenance and housing-related expenses requires recognizing that structural repair cycles can create distinct multi-quarter patterns that seasonal adjustment models may not fully remove. Revisions often stem from updated building permit data and construction cost surveys. Analysts comparing this series to broader consumer spending should note that intermediate housing outlays represent business-like inputs into owner-occupied dwellings rather than final household consumption.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this series measure everyday grocery and clothing purchases?
- No, everyday retail purchases by consumers fall under final household consumption expenditure instead.
- Why does residential maintenance count as intermediate consumption?
- Homeownership is treated as a producing enterprise, and property upkeep represents an input into housing services.
- Are major home renovations included here?
- Major structural additions are recorded under gross fixed capital formation rather than intermediate costs.