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REAL INCOME

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French Equivalent: Revenu réel

Definition:
Real income is obtained by deflating any income flow by a price index in order to measure the purchasing power of the item in question over a designated numeraire set of goods and services.

Source Publication:
SNA 16.148.

Hyperlink:
http://esa.un.org/unsd/sna1993/introduction.asp

Statistical Theme: National accounts

Created on Tuesday, September 25, 2001

Last updated on Tuesday, November 20, 2001