TOKYO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Japan's overall household spending fell 4.6 percent in December from a year earlier in price-adjusted real terms, government data showed on Friday, a bigger fall than a median market forecast for a 3.8 percent decrease.
Compared with November on a seasonally adjusted basis, spending fell 2.5 percent.
The average household spent 336,976 yen ($3,742), the data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications showed.
Spending by wage earners' households fell 4.1 percent in December from the same month a year earlier. (Reporting by Hideyuki Sano; Editing by Chris Gallagher)