Cultural services: UK household spend share by income 2022

According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom, households in the highest 10 percent disposable income decile group spent an average of 3.5 percent of their weekly expenditure on recreational and cultural services in the fiscal year ending March 2022. This was the highest share among all income groups. Meanwhile, households in the lowest disposable income decile group spent 2.5 percent of their weekly household expenditure on cultural services.

Share of weekly household expenditure going on recreational and cultural services in the United Kingdom (UK) in financial years 2020 and 2022, by disposable income decile group

Characteristic	2020	2022
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-
-	-	-

Download

Source

Show detailed source information?

Already a member?

Source

Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

May 2023

More information

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 2019 to March 2022

Number of respondents

5,630¹

Special properties

households

Method of interview

Panel survey

Supplementary notes

¹Total survey count for 2022. The number of households in the 2020 survey was 5,370.

The figures show weekly expenditure of households divided into decile groups, ranging from households with the lowest ten percent disposable income up to those with the highest disposable income.

Recreational and cultural services include: sports admissions, subscriptions, leisure class fees and equipment hire; cinema, theatre and museums etc.; TV, video, satellite rental, cable subscriptions, TV licences and the internet; miscellaneous entertainments; development of film/photos, passport photos, holiday and school photos; gambling payments.

Data can be found under Table 3.2 in the source's excel sheet.

Citation formats