Household Budget Survey (HBS) Households, according to the subjective perception of their economic situation Distribution of households, according to the household expenditure quintile and how they perceive their economic situation in comparison with that from one year ago (reduced) Units: percentage ,Total,Worse,Equal,Better,No data recorded, Total,100.00,42.88,48.67,8.42,., First quintile,100.00,48.16,45.33,6.51,., Second quintile,100.00,44.65,47.03,8.26,., Third quintile,100.00,43.15,48.93,7.80,., Fourth quintile,100.00,41.33,48.69,9.98,., Fifth quintile,100.00,37.10,53.37,9.54,., Notes: .Data protected by statistical secrecy 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