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Table 5-13
Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas, recent years — Calgary, Alberta

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Calgary, Alberta
  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
  dollars
Total expenditure 75,836 83,689 97,483 94,371 89,578
Food 7,435 7,901 8,092 7,815 8,083
Shelter 14,725 14,982 16,794 16,391 17,968
Household operation 3,274 3,672 4,198 3,807 3,803
Household furnishings and equipment 2,118 3,001 3,464 2,375 2,181
Clothing 3,049 3,395 4,256 3,878 3,680
Transportation 8,589 9,885 13,598 13,458 12,216
Health care 2,113 2,199 2,488 2,187 2,623
Personal care 980 1,362 1,537 1,357 1,436
Recreation 4,812 5,241 6,069 5,245 5,144
Reading materials and other printed matter 360 330 384 323 324
Education 1,386 1,725 1,415 1,509 1,456
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,566 1,842 1,960 1,709 1,807
Games of chance (net) 236 274 281 216 266
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,361 1,299 1,571 1,363 1,745
Total current consumption 52,004 57,108 66,107 61,633 62,732
Personal taxes 17,918 19,874 23,851 25,800 20,125
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 4,216 4,423 5,249 4,445 4,451
Gifts of money and contributions 1,697 2,285 2,276 2,493 2,270
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.