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Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories

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Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories: Part 1
	2008
	Canada ¹	Newfoundland and Labrador	Prince Edward Island	Nova Scotia	New Brunswick	Quebec	Ontario
	dollars
Total expenditure	71,364	57,713	58,707	60,328	58,435	60,478	77,311
Food	7,435	6,740	6,738	6,827	6,548	7,396	7,523
Shelter	14,183	9,529	11,126	11,200	10,073	11,169	16,410
Principal accommodation	13,026	8,895	10,484	10,534	9,364	10,393	14,967
Rented living quarters	2,968	1,320	1,955	2,027	1,312	3,202	3,222
Owned living quarters	7,803	4,858	5,363	5,834	5,414	5,621	9,240
Water, fuel and electricity for principal accommodation	2,256	2,716	3,166	2,673	2,638	1,570	2,505
Other accommodation	1,157	634	642	665	709	776	1,443
Household operation	3,345	3,113	3,532	3,341	3,163	2,653	3,670
Communications	1,507	1,516	1,531	1,530	1,316	1,137	1,607
Child care expenses	342	252	523	272	327	277	435
Pet expenses	439	351	396	491	451	271	497
Other	1,057	994	1,082	1,048	1,069	968	1,131
Household furnishings and equipment	1,967	1,957	1,650	1,712	1,623	1,578	2,127
Clothing	2,856	2,692	2,131	2,213	2,071	2,368	3,227
Transportation	9,722	9,008	8,913	8,848	9,925	7,997	10,148
Private transportation	8,702	8,210	8,311	8,172	9,509	7,334	8,981
Public transportation	1,020	799	602	676	416	663	1,167
Health care	2,044	1,572	2,040	1,795	1,980	2,084	1,847
Personal care	1,189	1,066	997	1,021	978	1,078	1,276
Recreation	4,066	3,792	3,104	3,512	3,407	3,304	4,098
Reading materials and other printed matter	253	178	260	222	228	231	268
Education	1,179	614	935	914	713	641	1,614
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages	1,495	1,553	1,424	1,422	1,344	1,416	1,454
Tobacco products and smokers' supplies	588	810	708	683	692	546	529
Alcoholic beverages	907	744	716	740	652	870	925
Games of chance (net)	260	265	223	230	255	228	272
Miscellaneous expenditures	1,075	650	763	1,080	764	965	1,068
Total current consumption	51,068	42,728	43,836	44,336	43,073	43,108	55,002
Personal taxes	14,599	10,362	9,505	10,814	10,419	12,423	16,378
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions	4,023	3,493	3,681	3,558	3,655	3,848	4,127
Gifts of money and contributions	1,674	1,130	1,685	1,620	1,290	1,100	1,804

Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories: Part 2
	2008
	Manitoba	Saskat- chewan	Alberta	British Columbia	Yukon	Northwest Territories	Nunavut
	dollars
Total expenditure	63,514	68,279	86,911	73,119	..	..	..
Food	6,493	6,301	7,713	7,938	..	..	..
Shelter	11,564	11,727	16,525	15,201	..	..	..
Principal accommodation	10,604	10,739	15,098	13,965	..	..	..
Rented living quarters	2,229	2,025	2,881	3,007	..	..	..
Owned living quarters	6,234	5,952	9,213	8,982	..	..	..
Water, fuel and electricity for principal accommodation	2,141	2,763	3,004	1,976	..	..	..
Other accommodation	960	988	1,427	1,235	..	..	..
Household operation	3,023	3,177	3,977	3,451	..	..	..
Communications	1,458	1,599	1,901	1,651	..	..	..
Child care expenses	183	263	397	253	..	..	..
Pet expenses	399	368	548	541	..	..	..
Other	983	947	1,131	1,006	..	..	..
Household furnishings and equipment	1,967	2,097	2,328	2,086	..	..	..
Clothing	2,453	2,612	3,301	2,900	..	..	..
Transportation	9,057	10,945	12,182	10,107	..	..	..
Private transportation	8,286	10,367	10,859	8,665	..	..	..
Public transportation	772	579	1,323	1,443	..	..	..
Health care	1,938	1,752	2,492	2,382	..	..	..
Personal care	1,095	1,111	1,380	1,148	..	..	..
Recreation	3,915	4,720	5,522	4,500	..	..	..
Reading materials and other printed matter	266	245	290	241	..	..	..
Education	820	963	1,300	1,259	..	..	..
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages	1,295	1,515	1,867	1,562	..	..	..
Tobacco products and smokers' supplies	632	720	894	487	..	..	..
Alcoholic beverages	663	795	973	1,075	..	..	..
Games of chance (net)	313	360	305	224	..	..	..
Miscellaneous expenditures	1,004	1,286	1,462	1,090	..	..	..
Total current consumption	45,202	48,810	60,643	54,089	..	..	..
Personal taxes	11,949	13,057	19,052	13,668	..	..	..
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions	4,199	4,344	4,579	3,763	..	..	..
Gifts of money and contributions	2,163	2,067	2,636	1,599	..	..	..

In 1998, 1999, and every second year thereafter starting with 2001, statistics for Canada include the territories. For the other years, Canada-level statistics include the 10 provinces only.

Note(s):

Beginning with 2006, the distinction between full-year and part-year members and households has been removed. Spending data are collected for the reference year for all members of the household at the time of the interview. Since the data for the 1997-2005 were based on full-year members only, to maintain the comparability with prior years, the data for 1997-2005 have been revised to include both full-year and part-year households.

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Table 2Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories

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Table 2
Average expenditure per household, Canada, provinces and territories