Table 5 Mean disposable income and its disbursement by component of current consumption of homeowners and by size of mortgage liability
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All homeowners | Homeowners without a mortgage | Mortgage-liability ratio | Homeowners with a mortgage | |||
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Under 10% | 10% to 19% | 20% and more | ||||
$ | ||||||
Disposable income | 66,600 | 57,000 | 96,200 | 76,800 | 59,200 | 73,700 |
disbursement of disposable income (%) | ||||||
Food | 12.6 | 13.4 | 10.0 | 12.4 | 13.4 | 12.1 |
Shelter | 24.6 | 14.9 | 20.0 | 26.8 | 43.6 | 30.2 |
Household operation | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 6.7 | 6.0 |
Household furnishings and equipment | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
Clothing | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
Transportation | 17.6 | 17.7 | 16.9 | 17.5 | 18.3 | 17.6 |
Health | 3.6 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.0 |
Personal care | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.0 |
Recreation | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.4 |
Reading material and other printed matter | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Education | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
Miscellaneous | 2.4 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
Total consumption | 89.5 | 81.0 | 80.1 | 90.8 | 111.1 | 94.4 |
Gifts and contributions | 2.9 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2.1 |
Savings (pre-tax income less expenditure) | 7.6 | 14.7 | 17.2 | 7.3 | -13.0 | 3.5 |
Disposable income | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
number | ||||||
Sample size | 6,840 | 3,245 | 820 | 1,614 | 1,158 | 3,595 |
'000 | ||||||
Number of households | 8,601 | 3,669 | 945 | 2,109 | 1,872 | 4,932 |
Note: Mortgage-liability ratio is mortgage payment expressed as a percentage of disposable income. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Household Spending, 2008. |
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