household income

collocation in English

meaningsofhouseholdandincome

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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/
us
/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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income
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪŋ.kʌm/
us
/ˈɪn.kʌm/
money that is earned from doing work or received ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdandincomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhousehold income

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The ratio ofhouseholdincometo poverty level was almost four (that is, the average household earned four times the federal poverty level).
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Carbon contracts that provide cash payments or payments in kind contribute tohouseholdincome.
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The results of the multivariate models show that the most consistent effect that helps explain governance perceptions is respondents' satisfaction withhouseholdincome.
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The models also confirm a consistently strong and positive effect for the measure of respondents' level of satisfaction with theirhouseholdincome.
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According to estimates, his son's contribution was 62% of the totalhouseholdincome.
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Using cost-plus pricing increases the percentage ofhouseholdincomefrom farmers' markets by 6.7, as it also increased total farmers' market sales.
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The averagehouseholdincomewas only slightly higher, corresponding to approximately 3-between $10,000 and $19,999.
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Agricultural output falls slightly because of the decline in demand due to the drop in realhouseholdincome.
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Except in very poor households, parents did not expect unmarried working children to contribute to thehouseholdincome.
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This reflects a pattern in which firewood collected from adjacent forests represents an important input tohouseholdincomefor all sample households.
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She finds variation in persistency by gender, earnings andhouseholdincome.
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Not surprisingly, the pattern is reversed for workers, among whom, for example, labour earnings comprise 89 per cent of totalhouseholdincomeon average.
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Participation was strongly associated withhouseholdincome, since 'not credit-worthy' older people were denied access to loans.
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Using equivalised income rather than totalhouseholdincomeautomatically (if imprecisely) corrects for changes in family composition from one year to the next.
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In contrast, higherhouseholdincomeis negatively related to support for a stronger role of religion in public affairs.
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The data on the sources of income from annualhouseholdincome-expenditure surveys, however, tell another interesting story.
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This amounted to 1.00 per cent of meanhouseholdincome.
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Retired and part-time, along with limited-resource vendors (with annualhouseholdincomeless than $20,000) were also found to have lower total sales in the 2004 season.
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Overall, the cotton-producing area is among the richest areas in the country, with an estimatedhouseholdincomeapproximately five times the national average.
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