The Hague - XINHUA
Compared to 2011, Dutch real disposable income of households decreased by 2.4 percent in the third quarter of 2012, official data showed Friday. According to a report the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) released Friday, it was the fifth quarter in a row that real disposable income fell. While wages were restrained, the average prices rose by more than 2 percent. Since the start of the European financial crisis in September 2008, the income of households decreased by almost 4 percent in the country.