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  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/economy/greece-household-budget-survey-2025",
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  "title": "What Greek households spent in 2025: €1,820 a month, with renters putting 23.4% of their budget into housing",
  "dek": "ELSTAT's Household Budget Survey, published on 25 September 2026, shows spending rising faster than prices, housing among the fastest-rising costs, and food and housing taking more than half of the poorest fifth's budget.",
  "description": "Greek households spent €1,820.20 a month in 2025, up 5.5% (2.9% after inflation), ELSTAT says. Renters put 23.4% of their budget into housing.",
  "language": "en",
  "section": "economy",
  "format": "analysis",
  "published": "2026-10-18T07:18:00.000Z",
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    "Average household spending in Greece was €1,820.20 a month in 2025, up 5.5% on 2024 at current prices and 2.9% at constant prices, according to ELSTAT's Household Budget Survey of 25 September 2026.[S1]",
    "Households living in rented homes spent 23.4% of their monthly budget on housing in 2025, of which 17.3% was rent, ELSTAT says.[S1]",
    "The poorest 20% of the population, ranked by equivalised spending, put 54.2% of their 2025 budget into food and housing, against 25.0% for the richest 20%, by our calculation from ELSTAT's Table 15.[S1]"
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "ELSTAT's page-1 headline says the poorest 20% of the population spend 54.4% of their budget on food and housing, against 34.5% for the richest 20%.[S1]",
      "finding": "ELSTAT's own Table 15, for the poorest and richest 20%, gives food and housing shares that add up to 54.2% and 25.0%, by our calculation. By our reading, the headline figures match Table 16, which compares poor and non-poor households.[S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "IELKA's analysis, as reported by To Vima, Epixeiro and Dealnews, says household spending on rent rose 14.4% in 2025.[S3][S4][S5]",
      "finding": "ELSTAT's release gives no figure for the change in rent spending, so we could not check the 14.4% against it; its housing category rose 8.3% at current prices, to €268.12 a month.[S1] IELKA based its analysis on ELSTAT data and may have used ELSTAT's detailed tables, which we did not read.[S3][S5]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The press reports of IELKA's analysis say housing spending rose 8.3%.[S3][S4]",
      "finding": "ELSTAT's Table 1 gives housing +8.3% at current prices, from €247.51 to €268.12 a month.[S1]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "What exactly IELKA's 14.4% rise in rent spending measures (rent per renting household, or averaged over all households), and how much of it reflects more households renting rather than higher rents. We could not see IELKA's document.",
    "What share of households rented in 2025, and how that changed from 2024. The release text does not say.",
    "How the renters' housing burden differs by region or by income. The release gives the 23.4% figure only for all renting households.",
    "Whether ELSTAT's headline 54.4% and 34.5% food-and-housing figures are meant to describe the poorest and richest 20% (as the headline says) or poor and non-poor households (whose Table 16 shares they match). ELSTAT does not say."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "publisher": "ΕΛΣΤΑΤ (ELSTAT, Hellenic Statistical Authority)",
      "title": "Έρευνα Οικογενειακών Προϋπολογισμών 2025",
      "date": "2026-09-25",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/5fe38ebc-d408-40d2-57e2-701e9e7c17b1",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261018071904/https://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/5fe38ebc-d408-40d2-57e2-701e9e7c17b1"
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "publisher": "ΕΛΣΤΑΤ (ELSTAT, Hellenic Statistical Authority)",
      "title": "Ακαθάριστο Εγχώριο Προϊόν (2η εκτίμηση), 2025",
      "date": "2026-10-16",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/44c447f4-bfe4-196c-b0a0-a1d1f67594ac",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261018071903/https://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/44c447f4-bfe4-196c-b0a0-a1d1f67594ac"
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "publisher": "Το Βήμα (To Vima)",
      "title": "Έρευνα ΙΕΛΚΑ: Πώς άλλαξαν οι δαπάνες και η διατροφή των Ελλήνων",
      "date": "2026-10-12",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.tovima.gr/2026/10/12/finance/ereyna-ielka-pos-allaksan-oi-dapanes-kai-i-diatrofi-ton-ellinon/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261018071904/https://www.tovima.gr/2026/10/12/finance/ereyna-ielka-pos-allaksan-oi-dapanes-kai-i-diatrofi-ton-ellinon/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S4",
      "publisher": "Epixeiro.gr",
      "title": "ΙΕΛΚΑ: Πώς αλλάζουν οι καταναλωτικές δαπάνες των ελληνικών νοικοκυριών",
      "date": "2026-10-12",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.epixeiro.gr/studies-reports/article/483087/ielka-pws-allazoin-oi-katanalotikes-dapanes-ton-ellinikwn-noikokiriwn",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S5",
      "publisher": "Dealnews.gr",
      "title": "«Εκτοξεύτηκε» η δαπάνη των νοικοκυριών για ενοίκια κατά 14,4%",
      "date": "2026-10-17",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.dealnews.gr/ellada/1178284/ektoxeftike-i-dapani-ton-noikokyrion-gia-enoikia-kata-144/",
      "archive": null
    }
  ],
  "greekPassages": [
    {
      "id": "renters",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Page 1, headline points",
      "greek": "Τα νοικοκυριά που διαμένουν σε ενοικιασμένη κατοικία δαπανούν, κατά μέσο όρο, το 23,4% του συνολικού μηνιαίου προϋπολογισμού τους για στέγαση, εκ του οποίου το 17,3% αφορά την καταβολή ενοικίου.",
      "translation": "Households living in rented accommodation spend, on average, 23.4% of their total monthly budget on housing, of which 17.3% relates to the payment of rent."
    },
    {
      "id": "quintiles",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Page 1, headline points",
      "greek": "Το μερίδιο της μέσης δαπάνης για είδη διατροφής και μη οινοπνευματώδη ποτά και στέγαση των νοικοκυριών του φτωχότερου 20% του πληθυσμού ανέρχεται στο 54,4% της συνολικής δαπάνης των νοικοκυριών, ενώ το αντίστοιχο μερίδιο του πλουσιότερου 20% του πληθυσμού ανέρχεται στο 34,5%.",
      "translation": "The share of average spending on food and non-alcoholic drinks and on housing for households in the poorest 20% of the population is 54.4% of the households' total spending, while the corresponding share for the richest 20% of the population is 34.5%."
    }
  ],
  "redlines": [],
  "corrections": [],
  "tags": [
    "household spending",
    "ELSTAT",
    "rents",
    "cost of living",
    "inequality",
    "regions"
  ]
}