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Table 3
Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas

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Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas: Part 1
  2008
Canada St. John's Charlottetown and Summerside Halifax Saint John Québec Montréal Ottawa- Gatineau Toronto
  dollars
Total expenditure 71,364 70,318 62,965 70,389 74,467 F 63,794 F 85,059
Food 7,435 7,087 6,957 7,417 6,974 F 7,568 F 8,132
Shelter 14,183 12,029 12,491 13,383 12,055 F 12,361 F 18,901
Household operation 3,345 3,499 3,714 3,408 3,585 F 2,673 F 3,892
Household furnishings and equipment 1,967 2,318 1,648 1,815 1,612 F 1,535 F 1,967
Clothing 2,856 3,127 2,362 2,647 2,459 F 2,562 F 3,832
Transportation 9,722 10,430 8,672 9,956 11,924 F 7,332 F 10,229
Health care 2,044 1,789 1,990 1,813 1,859 F 2,150 F 2,115
Personal care 1,189 1,247 1,044 1,161 1,022 F 1,142 F 1,366
Recreation 4,066 4,523 3,384 4,167 4,095 F 3,095 F 4,141
Reading materials and other printed matter 253 269 269 246 273 F 239 F 272
Education 1,179 1,124 1,150 1,305 1,337 F 873 F 2,009
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,495 1,612 1,488 1,480 1,647 F 1,423 F 1,537
Games of chance (net) 260 283 213 220 267 F 195 F 268
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,075 919 784 1,279 938 F 1,052 F 1,171
Total current consumption 51,068 50,257 46,166 50,295 50,048 F 44,201 F 59,831
Personal taxes 14,599 14,235 10,941 14,119 18,364 F 14,392 F 19,365
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 4,023 4,742 3,884 4,212 4,668 F 3,662 F 4,254
Gifts of money and contributions 1,674 1,085 1,974 1,763 1,388 F 1,539 F 1,609
Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas: Part 2
  Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Calgary Edmonton Vancouver Victoria Whitehorse Yellowknife
  dollars
Total expenditure 65,074 80,073 75,649 89,578 91,475 75,029 F .. ..
Food 6,553 7,358 7,194 8,083 7,861 8,252 F .. ..
Shelter 12,458 14,316 14,255 17,968 16,768 16,279 F .. ..
Household operation 3,004 3,148 3,465 3,803 3,960 3,185 F .. ..
Household furnishings and equipment 1,818 2,670 2,123 2,181 2,243 1,712 F .. ..
Clothing 2,573 2,868 3,167 3,680 3,461 3,066 F .. ..
Transportation 8,702 12,884 11,091 12,216 13,903 9,932 F .. ..
Health care 1,829 1,628 1,750 2,623 2,337 2,165 F .. ..
Personal care 1,157 1,336 1,255 1,436 1,396 1,182 F .. ..
Recreation 3,693 5,588 4,778 5,144 5,528 3,960 F .. ..
Reading materials and other printed matter 279 294 292 324 315 197 F .. ..
Education 998 1,366 1,814 1,456 1,235 1,531 F .. ..
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,325 1,661 1,311 1,807 1,705 1,419 F .. ..
Games of chance (net) 324 414 285 266 313 231 F .. ..
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,060 1,221 1,403 1,745 1,110 899 F .. ..
Total current consumption 45,774 56,754 54,184 62,732 62,135 54,009 F .. ..
Personal taxes 12,830 14,959 15,259 20,125 21,792 15,665 F .. ..
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 4,429 5,443 4,389 4,451 5,224 4,037 F .. ..
Gifts of money and contributions 2,041 2,917 1,817 2,270 2,324 1,318 F .. ..
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. Due to unreliability of the data which was the result of low sample size, the data for Québec, Ottawa and Victoria for 2008 were suppressed.