User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2001 - ARCHIVED
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62F0026M2002002
This guide presents information of interest to users of data from the Survey of Household Spending. Data are collected via paper questionnaires and personal interviews conducted in January, February and March after the reference year. Information is gathered about the spending habits, dwelling characteristics and household equipment of Canadian households during the reference year. The survey covers private households in the 10 provinces and the 3 territories. (The territories are surveyed every second year, starting in 2001.) This guide includes definitions of survey terms and variables, as well as descriptions of survey methodology and data quality. There is also a section describing the various statistics that can be created using expenditure data (e.g., budget share, market share and aggregates).
Main Product: Household Expenditures Research Paper Series
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December 11, 2002 |
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- Additions and renovations
- Air carriers
- Air conditioners
- Alcoholic beverages
- Analysis of variance
- Automobile parts
- Bicycles
- Boats
- Books
- Buses
- Cable television
- Camping and picnic equipment
- Canada Pension Plan
- Carpets, mats and rugs
- Casinos
- Cellular telephones
- Charitable donations
- Child tax benefits
- Children
- Clocks and watches
- Clothing
- Computer games
- Computer software
- Computers
- Condominium fees
- Contributions
- Data collection
- Data quality
- Day care centres
- Dental insurance plans
- Dishwashers
- Disposable diapers
- Dual-earner families
- Dwellings
- Educational services
- Electrical appliances
- Employment insurance
- Entertainment
- Equipment costs
- Families with children
- Food
- Food purchased from stores
- Footwear
- Fuel costs
- Furniture and fixtures
- Gasoline
- Golf courses
- Hair dryers
- Hand tools
- Health expenditures
- Health insurance plans
- Home entertainment centres
- Home ownership
- Home safety devices
- Household consumption
- Household expenditures
- Humidifiers
- Hydroelectric power
- Insurance payments
- Insurance premiums
- Internet service providers
- Jewellery
- Kindergartens
- Lamps
- Lawn mowers
- Legal fees
- Lone-parent families
- Lotteries
- Luggage, purses and handbags
- Maintenance and repairs
- Materials and supplies
- Microwave ovens
- Mobile homes
- Motorcycles
- Movie theatres
- Musical instruments
- Newspapers
- Nursery products
- Paper products
- Periodicals
- Personal care
- Personal expenditures
- Pets
- Photographic equipment
- Postsecondary education
- Prescription drugs
- Quebec Pension Plan
- Railway rolling stock
- Reading materials
- Recreation
- Recreational vehicles
- Refrigerators
- Registered Retirement Savings Plans
- Rented accommodation
- Satellite communications
- Satellite dishes
- Shelter costs
- Skiing facilities
- Snowmobiles
- Sports clothing
- Sports events
- Stoves
- Support payments
- Survey methodology
- Taxes
- Telephone services
- Televisions
- Textbooks
- Textile products
- Thread
- Tobacco products
- Toys and games
- Trailers
- Transportation services
- Urban transit
- Video lottery terminals
- Video recorders
- Washing machines and dryers
- Yarn
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