Household Budget Survey (HBS) 
Households, according to their economic capacity in the last twelve months
Percentage of households, according to household expenditure quintile, and which have problems with their economic capacity
Units: percentage

	They have had delays in expected payments	They have had to take measures in order to deal with their customary expenses	They have not been able to dedicate money to savings or to the acquisition of housing	They are unable to assume an unexpected expense of 600 euros with their own resources	
Total	11.15	12.61	49.34	33.12	
First quintile	21.60	22.66	70.46	61.34	
Second quintile	13.70	14.58	56.66	42.71	
Third quintile	9.44	11.03	47.66	29.52	
Fourth quintile	7.04	8.44	40.14	20.72	
Fifth quintile	4.00	6.37	31.79	11.33	
Notes:
1) Household expenditure quintile: this is 20% or one-fifth of the households in the population. In the first quintile,  we find the 20% of the households in the population with the least household expenditure, and so on and so forth up to the  fifth quintile, which includes the 20% of the households in the population with the greatest household expenditure.
Source: National Statistics Institute