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
  2009
Canada St. John's Charlottetown and Summerside Halifax Saint John Québec Montréal Ottawa- Gatineau Toronto
  dollars
Total expenditure 71,117 71,715 58,522 69,550 71,049 F 63,822 F 83,847
Food 7,262 6,946 6,497 7,157 6,893 F 7,310 F 7,904
Shelter 14,095 13,487 11,818 13,567 11,405 F 12,458 F 17,185
Household operation 3,428 3,663 3,257 3,876 4,239 F 2,716 F 4,053
Household furnishings and equipment 1,896 2,323 1,473 1,881 1,525 F 1,672 F 1,940
Clothing 2,841 2,911 2,265 2,595 2,422 F 2,566 F 3,816
Transportation 9,753 10,870 7,669 8,749 10,571 F 8,315 F 10,676
Health care 2,004 2,004 1,903 1,692 3,018 F 2,168 F 1,824
Personal care 1,200 1,241 1,050 1,143 947 F 1,106 F 1,460
Recreation 3,843 3,870 2,980 3,706 6,313 F 2,971 F 3,549
Reading materials and other printed matter 232 221 253 249 296 F 196 F 236
Education 1,238 1,023 1,160 1,463 956 F 911 F 2,435
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,506 1,834 1,488 1,865 1,363 F 1,290 F 1,331
Games of chance (net) 255 201 219 287 216 F 160 F 261
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,180 607 842 996 1,098 F 948 F 1,409
Total current consumption 50,734 51,200 42,872 49,226 51,262 F 44,787 F 58,078
Personal taxes 14,399 14,834 10,256 14,109 14,355 F 13,957 F 18,488
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 4,269 4,510 3,792 4,452 3,771 F 3,957 F 5,734
Gifts of money and contributions 1,715 1,171 1,603 1,763 1,661 F 1,121 F 1,547
Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas: Part 2
  Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Calgary Edmonton Vancouver Victoria Whitehorse Yellowknife
  dollars
Total expenditure 67,997 67,961 77,404 95,187 80,527 76,870 F 74,064 101,966
Food 6,526 6,605 6,830 8,554 7,398 7,920 F 7,830 9,440
Shelter 12,793 12,857 15,238 17,364 16,620 17,449 F 14,870 23,235
Household operation 3,005 3,287 3,529 4,101 3,881 3,188 F 4,065 4,689
Household furnishings and equipment 2,060 1,798 2,239 2,187 2,239 1,872 F 2,131 3,121
Clothing 2,641 2,564 3,064 3,997 3,313 3,167 F 2,852 4,110
Transportation 8,928 10,371 11,432 11,967 11,068 9,506 F 9,166 11,497
Health care 1,845 1,426 1,649 2,261 1,935 2,432 F 1,679 1,719
Personal care 1,130 1,181 1,394 1,521 1,441 1,165 F 1,094 1,510
Recreation 3,922 4,441 4,456 4,980 4,779 4,491 F 4,768 5,310
Reading materials and other printed matter 249 255 294 306 282 192 F 406 462
Education 1,176 738 2,001 1,783 1,354 2,389 F 819 777
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,369 1,550 1,401 2,065 1,776 1,393 F 2,319 2,226
Games of chance (net) 287 258 361 514 325 196 F 196 370
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,253 1,269 1,302 1,237 1,079 1,071 F 1,270 1,175
Total current consumption 47,184 48,599 55,187 62,839 57,489 56,430 F 53,465 69,642
Personal taxes 14,178 12,649 15,217 24,779 16,661 15,700 F 13,613 23,845
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 4,332 4,889 4,831 4,868 4,744 3,499 F 4,981 6,064
Gifts of money and contributions 2,302 1,824 2,170 2,702 1,633 1,240 F 2,004 2,415
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.