Table 2
Purchasing power parities (consumption-based)

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Item 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
U.S. dollars per Canadian dollar
Notes:

Consumption-based data are presented in terms of the consuming sector rather than the one making the expenditures.

Purchasing power parities are estimates of the amount of United States currency required to buy the same quantity of a given commodity that one Canadian dollar purchases in Canada. These data are based on the triennial benchmark estimates for the United States and Canada from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). With the exception of the PPP for GDP, which uses relative changes in final domestic demand prices, extrapolations from benchmark estimates are made using changes in the associated implicit price indexes of the two countries.

Source: Statistics Canada, Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada, 2002 to 2009, catalogue number 13-604-M.
Actual individual consumption 0.84 0.84 0.85 0.85 0.87 0.88 0.89 0.89
Food and non-alcoholic beverages
 0.70 0.70 0.70 0.69 0.69 0.70 0.72 0.69
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco
 0.66 0.61 0.58 0.57 0.58 0.59 0.61 0.68
Clothing and footwear
 0.63 0.64 0.65 0.66 0.67 0.67 0.68 0.70
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels
 0.89 0.91 0.94 0.97 0.99 1.01 1.02 1.02
Household furnishings, equipment and maintenance
 0.63 0.62 0.63 0.64 0.65 0.65 0.66 0.65
Health
 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.30 1.31 1.33 1.34 1.33
Transport
 0.66 0.65 0.64 0.65 0.67 0.69 0.74 0.71
Communication
 0.84 0.83 0.81 0.79 0.78 0.75 0.75 0.76
Recreation and culture
 0.66 0.66 0.68 0.69 0.70 0.71 0.73 0.72
Education
 1.11 1.10 1.09 1.10 1.15 1.18 1.20 1.20
Restaurants and hotels
 0.67 0.66 0.66 0.65 0.66 0.66 0.67 0.67
Miscellaneous goods and services
 0.86 0.87 0.88 0.90 0.91 0.92 0.94 0.93
Net purchases abroad
 0.79 0.79 0.80 0.81 0.82 0.83 0.85 0.83
Actual collective consumption 0.80 0.79 0.80 0.79 0.80 0.82 0.84 0.81
Gross fixed capital formation 0.84 0.86 0.88 0.92 0.96 0.97 0.98 0.94
Construction
 0.90 0.90 0.91 0.94 0.96 0.95 0.95 0.91
Machinery and equipment
 0.78 0.82 0.86 0.89 0.94 0.99 1.02 1.00
Changes in inventories 0.69 0.69 0.70 0.71 0.74 0.76 0.80 0.78
Balance of exports and imports 0.83 0.84 0.85 0.86 0.87 0.89 0.90 0.89
Gross domestic product 0.83 0.84 0.84 0.86 0.87 0.89 0.90 0.88
Total goods 0.73 0.73 0.74 0.77 0.79 0.81 0.83 0.81
Consumer goods
 0.66 0.65 0.66 0.67 0.69 0.71 0.75 0.73
Durable goods
 0.65 0.65 0.66 0.68 0.68 0.68 0.70 0.71
Semi-durable goods
 0.62 0.62 0.63 0.64 0.64 0.64 0.66 0.66
Non-durable goods
 0.69 0.67 0.67 0.67 0.69 0.70 0.73 0.71
Capital goods
 0.84 0.86 0.88 0.91 0.95 0.96 0.97 0.93
Total services 0.93 0.94 0.95 0.95 0.96 0.98 0.99 0.97
Individual services
 0.96 0.97 0.98 0.99 0.99 1.00 1.01 1.00
Collective services
 0.80 0.79 0.80 0.79 0.80 0.82 0.84 0.81
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