Table 3
Social indicators

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  2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
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.