The Statistics and Census Service conducted the 2007/2008 Household Budget Survey (07/08 HBS), a sampling survey carried out once every five years, from September 2007 to September 2008. The statistical unit included all households residing in 5,720 living quarters selected by sampling. In accordance to the preliminary results, Macao had a total of 167,187 households in 2007/2008, with 133,548 households (79.9%) residing in private housing, 27,871 (16.7%) in economic housing and 5,768 (3.5%) in social housing. The average number of household per living quarter was 1.06 and the average household size decreased from 3.18 persons in 02/03 HBS to 3.14 in 07/08 HBS. Monthly consumption expenditure of all households in Macao totalled MOP 3.08 billion, up by 107.6% in nominal terms and 74.9% in real terms compared with the results of 02/03 HBS. Average monthly consumption expenditure per household amounted to MOP 18,394, an increase of 66.8% in nominal terms and 40.5% in real terms compared with MOP11,026 registered in 02/03 HBS. Total monthly income of all households amounted to MOP 4.10 billion, up by 99.5% in nominal terms and 68.0% in real terms. The average monthly income per household was MOP 24,528, which rose by 60.3% in nominal terms and 35.0% in real terms. The proportion of households with an annual average income of MOP 240,000 and more increased by 27.6 percentage points over that of 02/03 HBS to account for 50.7% of total number of households in Macao, while the respective share of those with an annual average income of less than MOP 48,000 was 4.6%, a decrease of 7.6 percentage points from 02/03 HBS, reflecting that household income was moving towards higher equality of income distribution. Furthermore, Gini coefficient that measures the inequality of income distribution of households decreased from 0.45 in 02/03 HBS to 0.37 in 07/08 HBS. The 80/20 ratio that reflects the distribution of household income went down from 11.4 in 02/03 HBS to 8.3 in 07/08 HBS. Global results of the 07/08 HBS will be available in April 2009.
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