Table 4.
Motives for financial transfers
| Country | Sweden | Denmark | Netherlands | Germany | Switzerland | Austria | France | Italy | Spain | Greece | All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motives for financial transfers given | |||||||||||
| To meet basic needs | 26.1 | 19.0 | 21.1 | 16.5 | 24.5 | 12.8 | 27.2 | 21.4 | 34.2 | 31.2 | 21.6 |
| To buy or furnish a house or apartment | 6.3 | 9.8 | 11.1 | 8.2 | 5.2 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 6.8 | 14.3 | 3.1 | 8.6 |
| To help with a large item of expenditures | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.2 | 16.0 | 6.1 | 12.7 | 9.6 | 5.5 | 7.4 | 9.4 | 11.0 |
| For a major family event | 6.3 | 10.0 | 4.8 | 26.5 | 12.6 | 25.7 | 4.4 | 22.5 | 8.7 | 11.6 | 17.6 |
| Other reason (unemployment, illness,... | 4.3 | 2.1 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 8.6 | 3.0 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 6.7 | 6.0 | 5.7 |
| For further education | 4.8 | 7.9 | 13.8 | 8.0 | 13.0 | 8.9 | 11.1 | 5.4 | 7.7 | 9.6 | 8.4 |
| No specific reason or unknown | 41.6 | 42.5 | 36.4 | 20.4 | 29.9 | 26.9 | 28.9 | 31.1 | 21.1 | 29.1 | 27.1 |
| Number of observations | 1,330 | 549 | 822 | 1,091 | 363 | 643 | 459 | 722 | 250 | 770 | 6,999 |
| Financial transfers received | |||||||||||
| To meet basic needs | 10.7 | 6.0 | 19.0 | 10.0 | 5.5 | 8.8 | 32.8 | 32.5 | 62.0 | 60.0 | 26.9 |
| To buy or furnish a house or apartment | 1.6 | 1.8 | 6.9 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 16.4 | 7.4 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 5.1 |
| To help with a large item of expenditures | 6.6 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 5.5 | 2.5 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 4.4 |
| For a major family event | 11.9 | 16.0 | 2.6 | 45.9 | 40.2 | 42.9 | 4.4 | 11.2 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 22.7 |
| Other reason (unemployment, illness, ...) | 1.3 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 9.6 | 7.9 | 5.4 |
| For further education | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| No specific reason or unknown | 67.3 | 68.3 | 65.7 | 33.4 | 43.5 | 40.0 | 32.6 | 37.6 | 21.4 | 25.1 | 35.2 |
| Number of observations | 148 | 99 | 73 | 184 | 43 | 155 | 61 | 104 | 104 | 244 | 1,215 |
Source: SHARE 2004, release 1 (weighted results)