Monitoring of poverty indexes and structure of household expenditures is one of diagnostic and warning tool for social … politics. Well-being or poverty of selected households’ groups can be illustrated not only by mentioned categories, but also by … possession of consumer durables. Thus, there is implication for poverty and possession (or lack) of some consumer durable goods …

spending from 2009 through 2012 that also allow us to control for household heterogeneity. We find that durables spending …

The aim of the paper is the analysis of the household use of durables in Poland and other European countries …. Relatively, the highest amount of money for household furnishing with durables was spent by the Bulgarians and the Italians (more … than 7% of the total household expenses). In Poland, the highest expenditure occurred for the wealthiest households and …