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Table 6
Social indicators

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Social indicators
  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Average household spending 1  
Total (current dollars) 62,464 65,575 67,736 69,946 71,364 ..
Water and sewage (current dollars) 204 211 221 253 251 ..
Electricity (current dollars) 1,040 1,070 1,111 1,147 1,162 ..
Food (current dollars) 6,772 6,978 7,046 7,305 7,435 ..
Gasoline and other motor fuels (current dollars) 1,854 2,024 2,079 2,223 2,233 ..
Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services (millions of chained 2002 dollars) 697,566 723,146 753,263 787,765 810,723 814,344
Residential waste  
Production per capita (kilograms) 386 .. 399 .. .. ..
Disposal (tonnes) 8,961,583 .. 9,238,376 .. .. ..
Disposal per capita (kilograms) 281 .. 284 .. .. ..
Diversion (tonnes) 3,363,803 .. 3,744,843 .. .. ..
Diversion per capita (kilograms) 105 .. 115 .. .. ..
Diversion rate (percent of waste production) 27 .. 29 .. .. ..
Distance driven by light vehicles 2(millions of kilometres) 285,164 289,717 296,871 300,203 294,361 303,576
Asthma (percent of population age 12 and over) .. 8.3 .. 8.1 8.4 8.1
1.
Data on average household spending is based on the Survey of Household Spending (SHS). For information on the difference between the SHS and personal expenditure data please see: Statistics Canada, 2008, Guide to the Income and Expenditure Accounts, Catalogue no.  13-017-X.
2.
Distance driven for vehicles weighing less than 4.5 tonnes, excluding the territories.
Note(s):
For 2003 data, see: Statistics Canada, 2010, EnviroStats , Vol. 4 no.1, Catalogue no. 16-002-X. For 2002 data, see: Statistics Canada, 2009, EnviroStats, Vol. 3 no.1, Catalogue no. 16-002-X.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, CANSIM tables 203-0001, 203-0003, 203-0002, 203-0007, 380-0017, 153-0041, 153-0042, 051-0001, 405-0063 and 105-0501 (accessed September 7, 2010).
Date Modified: 2013-12-11

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