Primary income of households in NRW by income components

Definition: Primary income includes in detail: compensation of employees received with proof of the place of residence of the workers (national concept); —Self-employed income, including the remuneration of family workers, —Operating surpluses of self-employed and individual enterprises; and net property income received. Primary income is assessed at the level of the respective reporting year, i.e. without adjustment for inflation. Note: A general audit was carried out in 2014. This mainly served to introduce the new European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) across Europe. ESA 2010 is based on the global new System of National Accounts (SNA 2008) and replaced the previous ESA 1995. As a result of this revision, the base year for the calculations changed from 2005 to 2010. Data source: Working Group on National Accounts of the Länder