Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

This dataset provides the whole set of OECD annual households final consumption expenditure data and is recommended for users who wish to query a large amount of data. It is not designed for visualising results using the Table and Chart buttons. To access the ‘Developer API query builder’, click on the ‘Developer API’ button above. The application programming interface (API), based on the SDMX standard, allows a developer to access the data using simple RESTful URL and HTTP header options for various choices of response formats including JSON. The query filter is generated according to the current data selection. To change the data selection, use the filters on the left.

This table provides a detailed breakdown of the financial assets and liabilities of households and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH) by financial instrument. On the asset side of the balance sheet, it shows data on households’ and NPISHs’ holdings of investment fund shares, life insurance and annuity entitlements, and pension entitlements; and on the liability side, it shows data on their short- and long-term borrowing (loans).

The ICT Access and Usage by Households and Individuals database provides a selection of 92 indicators, based on the of 2nd revision of the OECD Model Survey on ICT Access and Usage by Households and Individuals.The selected indicators originate from two sources:1. An OECD data collection on the following OECD and accession countries or key partners: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States. Data collection methodology followed by these countries is available in each respective country metadata file.2. Eurostat Statistics on Households and Individuals for the OECD countries that are part of the European Statistical system. For those countries, indicators shown in this database refer to the original indicator as published by EUROSTAT -see the correspondence table-. Please refer to Eurostat methodology to access the methodological information.For all countries, breakdowns used correspond to those of EUROSTAT, unless otherwise stated in the metadata.

While much of the comparative evidence on inequalities that is currently available refers to household income, wealth is a critical dimension of households’ economic well-being. How wealth is distributed is important for equity and inter-generational mobility, but also for the stability of the economic system and for its resilience to shocks. While the lack of comparative evidence in this field reflects the absence of an agreed standard that statistical offices could use when collecting this information, this gap has been addressed by the OECD with the release in 2013 of a set of statistical guidelines in this field. In 2013, the OECD issued a set of ‘Guidelines’ for micro statistics on household wealth (OECD, 2013) and an increasing number of countries have engaged in the collection of micro statistics in this field (European Central Bank, 2013). Building on these initiatives as well as others, such as the Luxembourg Wealth Study (Sierminska et al, 2006) which have informed previous OECD analysis (Jantii et al., 2008), the OECD has updated the data on the distribution of household wealth for OECD countries, based on the set of conventions and classifications proposed in the 2013 OECD Guidelines.