In the period of 12 months before the survey in 2017 14% of households were in arrears to pay utility costs, possibly rent or mortgage, other loans or purchase instalments at least once because of financial difficulties, which is 2 percentage points less than in 2016 and 6 percentage points less than in 2014, when the largest share of households was in arrears.
Stanovanjske stroške, morebitno najemnino ali hipotekarno posojilo, druga posojila ali nakupe na obroke je v zadnjih 12 mesecih pred anketiranjem v letu 2017 zaradi finančne stiske vsaj enkrat poravnalo z zamudo 14% gospodinjstev; to je za 2 odstotni točki manj, kot jih je bilo v letu 2016, in za 6 odstotnih točk manj, kot jih je bilo v letu 2014, ko je bilo takih gospodinjstev največ.