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Table 2
Goods and services purchases resulting in the highest indirect emissions from households, 2004^p


	Emissions¹	Contribution to total household indirect emissions	Personal expenditure²	Percent contribution to total spending	Emissions intensity³
	kilotonnes	percent	millions of dollars	percent	kilotonnes per millions of dollars
Personal expenditure categories of final demand⁴
Electricity	41,445	20	13,570	2	3.054
Food and non-alcoholic beverages	39,857	19	67,105	9	0.594
Restaurants and accommodation services	15,716	8	49,505	7	0.317
Motor fuels and lubricants	15,137	7	24,245	3	0.624
Subtotal	112,155	54	154,425	21	...
1. Domestic industrial emissions associated with producing goods and services to meet household demand. 2. Household spending on consumer goods and services, plus the operating expenses of private non-profit organizations serving households. 3. Domestic industrial emissions per unit of total personal expenditure. 4. Final demand in the Canadian System of National Accounts (CSNA) is broken down into 170 categories, 52 of which are related to personal expenditure by individuals, families and private non-profit organizations. Each of the 719 goods and services in the CSNA is assigned to one of these 52 broad categories of personal expenditure. Source(s): Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, Material and Energy Flow Accounts, 2008. Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 380-0024, accessed November 12, 2008.