Table 5-5
Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas, recent years — Saint John, New Brunswick

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Saint John, New Brunswick
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
  dollars
Total expenditure 61,511 53,683 67,250 74,467 71,049
Food 6,459 5,834 7,073 6,974 6,893
Shelter 10,359 9,813 11,745 12,055 11,405
Household operation 3,220 2,811 3,138 3,585 4,239
Household furnishings and equipment 1,649 1,503 1,541 1,612 1,525
Clothing 2,531 2,092 2,717 2,459 2,422
Transportation 8,886 7,621 10,745 11,924 10,571
Health care 1,708 1,480 2,044 1,859 3,018
Personal care 1,040 914 1,011 1,022 947
Recreation 3,437 2,682 3,458 4,095 6,313
Reading materials and other printed matter 272 221 224 273 296
Education 1,172 935 981 1,337 956
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,436 1,205 1,471 1,647 1,363
Games of chance (net) 223 244 157 267 216
Miscellaneous expenditures 681 716 1,007 938 1,098
Total current consumption 43,073 38,071 47,313 50,048 51,262
Personal taxes 13,565 10,959 14,198 18,364 14,355
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 3,408 3,539 4,351 4,668 3,771
Gifts of money and contributions 1,465 1,114 1,388 1,388 1,661
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.