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

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Calgary, Alberta
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
  dollars
Total expenditure 83,689 97,483 94,371 89,578 95,187
Food 7,901 8,092 7,815 8,083 8,554
Shelter 14,982 16,794 16,391 17,968 17,364
Household operation 3,672 4,198 3,807 3,803 4,101
Household furnishings and equipment 3,001 3,464 2,375 2,181 2,187
Clothing 3,395 4,256 3,878 3,680 3,997
Transportation 9,885 13,598 13,458 12,216 11,967
Health care 2,199 2,488 2,187 2,623 2,261
Personal care 1,362 1,537 1,357 1,436 1,521
Recreation 5,241 6,069 5,245 5,144 4,980
Reading materials and other printed matter 330 384 323 324 306
Education 1,725 1,415 1,509 1,456 1,783
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,842 1,960 1,709 1,807 2,065
Games of chance (net) 274 281 216 266 514
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,299 1,571 1,363 1,745 1,237
Total current consumption 57,108 66,107 61,633 62,732 62,839
Personal taxes 19,874 23,851 25,800 20,125 24,779
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 4,423 5,249 4,445 4,451 4,868
Gifts of money and contributions 2,285 2,276 2,493 2,270 2,702
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.