Table 1
Ratios of real expenditure per capita in the United States compared with Canada, selected components of gross domestic product (consumption-based)

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Item 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Canada = 100
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Consumption-based data are presented in terms of the consuming sector rather than the one making the expenditures.

This table provides ratios of real expenditure per capita in the United States relative to those in Canada for categories of gross domestic product. The term "real expenditure" is used here to express expenditure of different countries in the same set of prices through the process of conversion with purchasing power parities. The use of the term "real" in a spatial context is analogous to its conventional use in time series, where expenditures made in different time periods are expressed in base period prices in order to measure their real growth. United States per capita expenditures in current dollars are converted to Canadian dollars by dividing them by the Fisher Purchasing Power Parities. These converted expenditures are then expressed as a ratio of Canadian expenditure per capita. The detailed categories of gross domestic product are those defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Eurostat, and vary slightly from the ones usually published for Canada in the Income and Expenditure Accounts and for the United States in the National Income and Product Accounts.

Source: Statistics Canada, Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada, 2002 to 2009, catalogue number 13-604-M.
Actual individual consumption 133.6 133.5 133.9 133.8 131.8 129.3 125.6 123.1
Food and non-alcoholic beverages
124.7 126.0 127.6 132.5 133.9 133.5 130.0 128.3
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco
96.7 99.8 105.4 110.3 114.3 112.8 109.3 103.4
Clothing and footwear
156.2 156.0 156.1 156.5 153.2 151.0 145.1 139.4
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels
109.7 106.2 103.8 103.5 102.8 99.8 97.2 96.3
Household furnishings, equipment and maintenance
145.0 145.3 144.8 143.1 139.5 134.8 126.5 122.8
Health
128.2 127.8 127.2 128.4 125.3 121.0 119.2 116.7
Transport
145.7 152.9 157.4 155.8 147.8 141.0 123.6 120.6
Communication
159.4 159.4 160.2 157.4 161.9 172.7 174.8 173.9
Recreation and culture
161.8 163.0 163.1 160.7 160.8 159.8 153.6 150.8
Education
108.0 109.8 111.1 109.9 104.0 105.4 105.0 102.3
Restaurants and hotels
148.0 157.3 160.4 164.7 166.4 166.6 164.3 163.0
Miscellaneous goods and services
160.4 157.4 156.9 154.6 152.8 150.3 148.2 143.5
Net purchases abroad
38.3 -4.5 3.5 -0.3 6.9 -3.9 -11.9 -10.0
Actual collective consumption 148.8 150.8 157.5 160.2 158.5 156.4 153.3 151.8
Gross fixed capital formation 113.5 110.0 107.3 102.0 94.5 88.4 81.1 79.0
Construction
90.1 89.5 88.0 84.9 77.9 71.1 63.2 58.9
Machinery and equipment
151.8 143.1 140.5 133.4 127.9 123.7 119.0 121.8
Changes in inventories -69.9 60.1 192.3 71.9 94.7 50.4 -102.7 217.8
Balance of exports and imports -109.8 -143.9 -143.3 -179.3 -263.7 -296.6 -346.2 183.1
Gross domestic product 120.7 119.7 118.7 116.9 115.5 113.4 109.3 114.8
Total goods 134.2 132.2 132.5 128.0 122.2 116.1 106.4 106.5
Consumer goods
148.8 152.1 154.2 154.7 150.3 144.9 133.7 133.7
Durable goods
142.5 143.3 143.4 138.5 132.1 127.5 112.6 108.8
Semi-durable goods
173.3 174.2 174.4 175.3 173.6 170.6 163.2 161.2
Non-durable goods
143.7 148.3 151.5 155.5 155.5 152.8 147.2 146.8
Capital goods
115.5 109.0 108.5 101.0 94.4 87.7 78.9 76.9
Total services 128.2 127.6 127.9 127.8 126.1 123.9 121.8 119.8
Individual services
129.4 128.8 127.9 127.5 126.8 124.4 122.9 120.2
Collective services
148.8 150.8 157.5 160.2 158.5 156.4 153.3 151.8
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