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Survey of Household Spending, Public-use Microdata File
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2005
Understanding consumer spending is important for a wide variety of users, including social policy analysts, advocacy and community groups, businesses and all levels of government. The public-use microdata file for the 2005 Survey of Household Spending gives users the ability to conduct their own analysis of spending on a wide variety of goods and services, dwelling characteristics and possession of household equipment and services. Results from the 2005 Survey of Household Spending were originally released in The Daily on December 12, 2006.
The public-use microdata file for the Survey of Household Spending contains household level information about expenditures on a wide variety of goods and services: food, shelter, clothing, transportation, health care, child care, education, reading materials, communications, recreation, furniture, tobacco and alcohol, gambling, taxes, insurance premiums, pension contributions, money gifts and charitable contributions. All records have been thoroughly screened to ensure the anonymity of respondents.
The product Survey of Household Spending - Public-use Microdata File, 2005 (62M0004XCB, $3,210) is now available. See How to order products.
For more information about the current survey results and related products and services, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-888-297-7355; 613-951-7355; fax: 613-951-3012; income@statcan.gc.ca), Income Statistics Division.
