Table 3
Social indicators
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2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
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Average household spending on water and sewage (current dollars) | 195 | 190 | 209 | 209 | 217 | .. |
Average household spending on electricity (current dollars) | 973 | 1,019 | 1,056 | 1,065 | 1,099 | .. |
Average household spending on food (current dollars) | 6,415 | 6,692 | 6,787 | 6,910 | 7,135 | .. |
Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services (million chained 2002 dollars) | 632,781 | 655,722 | 675,443 | 698,138 | 724,942 | 755,204 |
Residential waste production per capita (kilograms) | .. | 390 | .. | 418 | .. | .. |
Residential waste disposal (tonnes) | .. | 9,447,531 | .. | 9,792,787 | .. | .. |
Residential waste disposal per capita (kilograms) | .. | 301 | .. | 306 | .. | .. |
Residential waste diversion (tonnes) | .. | 2,789,669 | .. | 3,582,301 | .. | .. |
Residential waste diversion per capita (kilograms) | .. | 89 | .. | 112 | .. | .. |
Residential waste diversion rate (percent of waste production) | .. | 23 | .. | 27 | .. | .. |
Asthma (percent of population age 12 and over) | .. | .. | 8.4 | .. | 8.3 | .. |
Data sources: Statistics Canada, n.d. (no date), CANSIM tables 203-0003, 203-0002, 380-0017, and 105-0400. Statistics Canada, Waste Management Industry Survey: Business and Government Sectors, Catalogue no. 16F0023-X, Ottawa. |
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