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Table 18.9 Average household expenditures, by province and territory, 2007

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Table 18.9 Average household expenditures, by province and territory, 2007
	Canada	N.L.	P.E.I.	N.S.	N.B.	Que.	Ont.	Man.	Sask.	Alta.	B.C.	Y.T.	N.W.T.	Nvt.
	$
Total expenditures	69,946	55,007	55,574	59,987	58,205	57,308	76,654	63,303	63,944	85,912	72,621	76,997	89,075	73,747
Total current consumption	49,766	40,332	40,922	44,145	42,285	41,100	53,938	44,701	46,089	59,288	53,394	53,929	63,369	54,400
Food	7,305	6,463	6,629	6,640	6,602	7,321	7,383	6,518	6,073	7,491	7,745	7,078	9,096	14,057
Shelter	13,643	8,985	10,137	10,815	10,031	10,167	16,341	10,852	10,711	14,955	15,056	14,058	18,249	11,547
Household operation	3,287	2,968	3,097	3,304	2,945	2,601	3,666	3,063	3,161	3,768	3,357	3,831	4,110	3,445
Household furnishings and equipment	1,964	1,719	1,424	1,784	1,567	1,543	2,136	1,715	1,873	2,608	2,036	2,707	2,466	2,082
Clothing	2,948	2,588	2,112	2,412	2,312	2,368	3,420	2,482	2,434	3,548	2,818	2,915	3,844	3,345
Transportation	9,395	8,392	8,039	8,820	9,137	7,542	9,600	9,651	10,412	12,678	9,896	10,775	11,439	5,456
Health care	1,932	1,582	1,994	1,868	1,817	2,067	1,721	1,786	1,738	2,259	2,177	1,603	1,306	874
Personal care	1,167	1,008	1,027	1,048	1,000	1,089	1,239	1,102	1,082	1,288	1,135	1,193	1,351	1,123
Recreation	3,976	3,305	3,019	3,329	3,215	3,055	4,133	3,607	4,387	5,387	4,577	4,860	6,132	6,855
Reading materials and other printed matter	260	179	250	249	234	245	281	267	218	291	233	415	312	201
Education	1,017	579	797	1,055	1,005	633	1,220	869	804	1,176	1,215	739	503	F
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages	1,536	1,636	1,474	1,628	1,426	1,354	1,459	1,441	1,615	2,124	1,624	2,236	2,792	3,506
Games of chance (net amount)	251	247	195	253	191	178	283	311	286	340	223	308	653	465
Miscellaneous	1,081	681	727	939	804	936	1,055	1,037	1,293	1,374	1,303	1,212	1,116	1,144
Personal income taxes	14,447	10,466	9,504	10,585	10,610	11,739	16,403	12,411	12,215	19,766	13,297	16,437	17,751	13,312
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions	3,946	3,171	3,694	3,550	3,811	3,595	4,177	4,003	3,923	4,331	3,850	4,961	6,228	4,742
Gifts of money and contributions	1,788	1,038	1,454	1,708	1,499	874	2,137	2,188	1,716	2,527	2,080	1,670	1,727	1,293
	% of households reporting
Total expenditures	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Total current consumption	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Food	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Shelter	99.8	99.6	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.9	99.9	99.5	99.7	99.6	99.7	99.1	98.1	99.1
Household operation	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.8	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	97.5	99.8
Household furnishings and equipment	94.1	93.3	95.0	95.5	94.3	90.4	96.5	93.8	92.8	94.2	94.4	97.4	90.7	91.0
Clothing	99.2	99.5	99.4	98.5	99.3	98.6	99.7	99.1	99.2	99.7	98.9	100.0	98.1	98.8
Transportation	98.2	93.3	97.3	97.3	97.8	97.7	98.8	98.6	98.3	99.0	98.0	98.0	96.3	81.0
Health care	98.3	97.9	97.5	98.5	98.3	98.4	98.4	98.2	98.5	98.5	97.6	98.6	92.8	82.1
Personal care	99.8	99.8	100.0	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.9	99.5	99.9	99.8	99.7	99.8	96.9	97.8
Recreation	97.6	97.3	97.5	97.8	97.8	96.1	98.1	98.1	98.0	98.3	98.1	99.8	97.6	95.0
Reading materials and other printed matter	74.5	66.6	78.7	77.5	75.4	71.7	74.4	78.7	77.3	79.8	74.3	84.4	78.0	48.0
Education	34.5	27.5	31.0	31.9	31.1	34.9	32.8	34.9	34.1	37.1	38.6	31.6	29.6	F
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages	85.2	84.1	84.0	83.6	81.9	88.9	84.0	82.5	83.7	84.2	84.5	83.9	90.4	92.9
Games of chance (net amount)	53.1	52.2	54.6	55.9	55.3	56.7	51.0	56.8	56.2	48.8	52.6	48.5	54.4	40.8
Miscellaneous	91.9	83.6	89.8	90.5	90.6	91.6	91.6	94.1	95.4	94.8	91.7	96.3	84.8	78.1
Personal income taxes	93.5	81.5	92.5	88.2	89.0	90.8	96.9	96.2	88.5	95.3	91.7	93.8	97.7	93.6
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions	84.0	77.4	86.0	82.0	85.0	84.0	84.2	81.8	81.1	89.2	81.9	90.8	88.2	89.7
Gifts of money and contributions	75.5	85.6	87.3	83.1	82.2	65.6	80.6	82.8	82.5	77.3	71.4	75.1	70.0	63.7
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 203-0001.

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