Survey of Household Spending: Data visualization tool

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To ensure data quality, suppression of expenditure estimates is based on the coefficient of variation (CV). Expenditures that have a CV greater than or equal to 35% are suppressed as they are too unreliable to be published.

The 2019 Survey of Household Spending questionnaire was streamlined to reduce respondent burden. As a result, some data series (for example, Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages) are no longer available or have been combined to create new series starting with reference year 2019. Therefore, estimates for some expenditure categories in 2019 may no longer be directly comparable to those from previous years due to changes to the questionnaire and/or to the mode used to collect certain expenditures.

Canada-level statistics include the 10 provinces only.

For Iqaluit, no estimates will be available with SHS 2021 data as the response rate was too low to allow for estimates of minimum quality to be released.

The SHS is conducted every 2 years starting with the 2017 reference year. Prior to 2017, it was done annually in the provinces, and every 2 years since 2015 in the territorial capitals.

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