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 …

-demographic characteristics. The distribution of wealth of European households obtained by the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) in … of wealth inequality, which can be performed by carefully adapting the techniques used in the case of income … distributions. The paper focuses on the measurement of inequality itself and includes an application to European data on wealth. We …