At the end of 2006, the ECB Governing Council set up the Household Finance and Consumption Network (HFCN). The network …), some national statistical institutes (NSIs), and a number of experts in the field of household finances who act as … consultants. The mandate given to the HFCN is to develop and conduct the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS …

This report summarises the methodologies used in the fourth wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption … Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in all 19 euro area countries, as well as in the …