Quarterly Sector Accounts - 2nd quarter of 2023

According to seasonally adjusted data, the total of monetary and non-monetary income of households decreased in real terms by 0.2% compared to the previous quarter. The real consumption per capita increased by 0.3%, quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q). The saving rate increased by 1.8 percentage point (p. p.). The investment rate of non-financial corporations increased by 0.5 p. p. compared to the previous quarter.

Non-financial corporations: the profit rate and the investment rate increased, q-o-q

The profit rate in the Q2 2023 was 49.0%, which is by 0.4 percentage point more, quarter-on-quarter, and by 2.1 p. p.¹ more, year-on-year. The total labour costs of non-financial corporations increased by 7.9%¹, y-o-y. The investment rate increased by 0.5 p. p., q-o-q, and reached 28.1%. It decreased by 1.5 p. p.¹, year-on-year.

Households: the income decreased, consumption increased, quarter-on-quarter

“The total of real monetary and non-monetary income of households per capita decreased in the Q2 2023 by 0.2%, q-o-q, and by 4.1%¹ in the year-on-year comparison, which was again related to the continuing price growth,” Vladimír Kermiet, Director of the National Accounts Department of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), said.

Household real consumption per capita increased by 0.3%, q-o-q; however, it decreased by 7.3%¹ in the year-on-year comparison.

The average monthly income from employment reached CZK 44 269¹ in the Q2 2023. It increased in real terms by 0.5%, q-o-q; in the y-o-y comparison, it decreased by 2.4%¹.

The household saving rate reached 18.8% in the Q2 2023, which is by 1.8 p. p. more compared to the previous quarter and by 2.9 p. p. more in the year-on-year comparison.

The investment rate in the household sector decreased by 0.2 p. p., q-o-q, and reached 7.2%. In the year-on-year comparison, the investment rate of households decreased by 1.0 p. p.¹

GDP estimate refinement

Concurrently, the gross domestic product (GDP) estimate has been refined. The GDP stagnated in the Q2 2023 in the q-o-q comparison and decreased by 0.6%, y-o-y. For the time series of GDP resources and uses see: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/hdp_ts.

¹ seasonally non-adjusted piece of data

All terms are in terms of national accounts; for explanations of terms written in bold italics see: https://apl.czso.cz/nufile/Definitions.pdf.

Contact person: Vladimír Kermiet, Director of the National Accounts Department, phone number (+420) 274 054 247, e-mail: vladimir.kermiet@czso.cz
Used data sources updated as at: 22 September 2023
Related CZSO website: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/quarterly-national-accounts-gdp-resources-and-uses-and-gdp-preliminary-estimate
Next news release will be published on: 5 January 2024 (Quarterly sector accounts for the third quarter of 2023)
Data of quarterly sector accounts are seasonally adjusted unless otherwise stated.

The news releases of Eurostat on quarterly sector accounts are published later. The latest published information for the first quarter of 2023 is available at:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-27072023-AP,
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-04072023-AP.

Quarterly sector accounts data are published on the CZSO website in the tables of Transactions in products and distributive transactions by sector:
http://apl.czso.cz/pll/rocenka/rocenkavyber.kvart_qsa?mylang=EN&oblast=@RU
and quarterly non-financial sector accounts (current and capital accounts):
http://apl.czso.cz/pll/rocenka/rocenkavyber.kvart_qsa_mat?mylang=EN&oblast=@RU

Attachments

⇩ acsu092923.docx
Annexes:
⇩ Table 1 Selected indicators of Quarterly Sector Accounts - (seasonally non-adjusted data)
⇩ Table 2 Selected indicators of Quarterly Sector Accounts - y-o-y change (seasonally non-adjusted data)
⇩ Table 3 Selected indicators of Quarterly Sector Accounts (seasonally adjusted data)
⇩ Table 4 Selected indicators of Quarterly Sector Accounts - q-o-q change (seasonally adjusted data)
⇩ Chart 1 Average monthly income of households from employment – seasonally adjusted
⇩ Chart 2 Real income and consumption expenditure of households – seasonally adjusted