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Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories

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Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories: Part 1
	2007
	Canada ¹	Newfoundland and Labrador	Prince Edward Island	Nova Scotia	New Brunswick	Quebec	Ontario
	dollars
Total expenditure	69,946	55,007	55,574	59,987	58,205	57,308	76,654
Food	7,305	6,463	6,629	6,640	6,602	7,321	7,383
Shelter	13,643	8,985	10,137	10,815	10,031	10,167	16,341
Principal accommodation	12,670	8,354	9,507	10,119	9,283	9,504	15,186
Rented living quarters	2,668	1,197	1,838	1,920	1,466	2,731	2,856
Owned living quarters	7,799	4,416	4,870	5,649	5,162	5,203	9,835
Water, fuel and electricity for principal accommodation	2,203	2,741	2,799	2,549	2,655	1,570	2,496
Other accommodation	973	632	630	697	748	663	1,155
Household operation	3,287	2,968	3,097	3,304	2,945	2,601	3,666
Communications	1,488	1,427	1,366	1,455	1,263	1,111	1,625
Child care expenses	330	212	270	293	342	286	375
Pet expenses	432	357	432	494	387	301	505
Other	1,037	972	1,029	1,062	953	903	1,161
Household furnishings and equipment	1,964	1,719	1,424	1,784	1,567	1,543	2,136
Clothing	2,948	2,588	2,112	2,412	2,312	2,368	3,420
Transportation	9,395	8,392	8,039	8,820	9,137	7,542	9,600
Private transportation	8,426	7,785	7,541	8,127	8,689	6,929	8,476
Public transportation	969	608	498	692	448	613	1,124
Health care	1,932	1,582	1,994	1,868	1,817	2,067	1,721
Personal care	1,167	1,008	1,027	1,048	1,000	1,089	1,239
Recreation	3,976	3,305	3,019	3,329	3,215	3,055	4,133
Reading materials and other printed matter	260	179	250	249	234	245	281
Education	1,017	579	797	1,055	1,005	633	1,220
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages	1,536	1,636	1,474	1,628	1,426	1,354	1,459
Tobacco products and smokers' supplies	621	890	833	854	757	536	535
Alcoholic beverages	915	746	641	774	669	818	924
Games of chance (net)	251	247	195	253	191	178	283
Miscellaneous expenditures	1,081	681	727	939	804	936	1,055
Total current consumption	49,766	40,332	40,922	44,145	42,285	41,100	53,938
Personal taxes	14,447	10,466	9,504	10,585	10,610	11,739	16,403
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions	3,946	3,171	3,694	3,550	3,811	3,595	4,177
Gifts of money and contributions	1,788	1,038	1,454	1,708	1,499	874	2,137

Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories: Part 2
	2007
	Manitoba	Saskat- chewan	Alberta	British Columbia	Yukon	Northwest Territories	Nunavut
	dollars
Total expenditure	63,303	63,944	85,912	72,621	76,997	89,075	73,747
Food	6,518	6,073	7,491	7,745	7,078	9,096	14,057
Shelter	10,852	10,711	14,955	15,056	14,058	18,249	11,547
Principal accommodation	10,023	9,798	13,748	13,980	12,899	16,705	10,421
Rented living quarters	2,041	1,675	2,655	2,982	2,324	3,779	4,118
Owned living quarters	5,923	5,460	8,266	9,199	7,403	8,688	3,780
Water, fuel and electricity for principal accommodation	2,059	2,663	2,827	1,800	3,172	4,238	2,522
Other accommodation	829	913	1,207	1,076	1,159	1,544	1,127
Household operation	3,063	3,161	3,768	3,357	3,831	4,110	3,445
Communications	1,442	1,507	1,853	1,612	1,717	1,863	1,484
Child care expenses	256	349	371	295	F	613	F
Pet expenses	388	350	462	486	613	466	323
Other	977	955	1,082	964	F	1,168	F
Household furnishings and equipment	1,715	1,873	2,608	2,036	2,707	2,466	2,082
Clothing	2,482	2,434	3,548	2,818	2,915	3,844	3,345
Transportation	9,651	10,412	12,678	9,896	10,775	11,439	5,456
Private transportation	8,870	9,857	11,418	8,567	9,237	9,477	3,021
Public transportation	781	555	1,260	1,328	1,537	1,962	2,434
Health care	1,786	1,738	2,259	2,177	1,603	1,306	874
Personal care	1,102	1,082	1,288	1,135	1,193	1,351	1,123
Recreation	3,607	4,387	5,387	4,577	4,860	6,132	6,855
Reading materials and other printed matter	267	218	291	233	415	312	201
Education	869	804	1,176	1,215	739	503	F
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages	1,441	1,615	2,124	1,624	2,236	2,792	3,506
Tobacco products and smokers' supplies	718	855	945	567	1,074	1,460	2,596
Alcoholic beverages	724	760	1,179	1,058	1,162	1,332	911
Games of chance (net)	311	286	340	223	308	653	465
Miscellaneous expenditures	1,037	1,293	1,374	1,303	1,212	1,116	1,144
Total current consumption	44,701	46,089	59,288	53,394	53,929	63,369	54,400
Personal taxes	12,411	12,215	19,766	13,297	16,437	17,751	13,312
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions	4,003	3,923	4,331	3,850	4,961	6,228	4,742
Gifts of money and contributions	2,188	1,716	2,527	2,080	1,670	1,727	1,293

In 1998, 1999, and every second year thereafter starting with 2001, statistics for Canada include the territories. For the other years, Canada-level statistics include the 10 provinces only.

Note(s):

Beginning with 2006, the distinction between full-year and part-year members and households has been removed. Spending data are collected for the reference year for all members of the household at the time of the interview. Since the data for the 1997-2005 were based on full-year members only, to maintain the comparability with prior years, the data for 1997-2005 have been revised to include both full-year and part-year households.

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Table 2Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories

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Table 2
Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories