Table 5-15
Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas, recent years — Vancouver, British Columbia

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Vancouver, British Columbia
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
  dollars
Total expenditure 71,346 76,348 74,460 75,029 76,870
Food 7,811 7,685 8,267 8,252 7,920
Shelter 14,946 15,800 15,918 16,279 17,449
Household operation 3,216 3,557 3,248 3,185 3,188
Household furnishings and equipment 1,925 1,978 1,639 1,712 1,872
Clothing 2,877 3,145 3,066 3,066 3,167
Transportation 9,268 10,586 9,486 9,932 9,506
Health care 2,241 2,235 1,921 2,165 2,432
Personal care 1,125 1,160 1,202 1,182 1,165
Recreation 4,084 3,692 4,017 3,960 4,491
Reading materials and other printed matter 305 287 213 197 192
Education 2,012 1,789 1,346 1,531 2,389
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,738 1,360 1,355 1,419 1,393
Games of chance (net) 314 247 189 231 196
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,198 1,272 1,241 899 1,071
Total current consumption 53,061 54,793 53,108 54,009 56,430
Personal taxes 13,074 15,985 15,157 15,665 15,700
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 3,581 4,103 3,810 4,037 3,499
Gifts of money and contributions 1,631 1,467 2,386 1,318 1,240
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.