Table 5-4
Average expenditure per household, Canada and selected metropolitan areas, recent years — Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Halifax, Nova Scotia
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
  dollars
Total expenditure 65,074 65,439 70,961 70,389 69,550
Food 6,621 6,626 7,198 7,417 7,157
Shelter 12,211 12,239 13,337 13,383 13,567
Household operation 3,213 3,368 3,547 3,408 3,876
Household furnishings and equipment 1,763 2,058 2,055 1,815 1,881
Clothing 2,402 2,772 2,936 2,647 2,595
Transportation 8,011 8,281 9,357 9,956 8,749
Health care 1,806 1,764 1,903 1,813 1,692
Personal care 1,041 1,170 1,232 1,161 1,143
Recreation 3,697 3,400 3,989 4,167 3,706
Reading materials and other printed matter 316 261 277 246 249
Education 1,386 1,629 1,605 1,305 1,463
Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 1,463 1,770 1,692 1,480 1,865
Games of chance (net) 396 231 232 220 287
Miscellaneous expenditures 1,042 930 1,071 1,279 996
Total current consumption 45,368 46,498 50,432 50,295 49,226
Personal taxes 14,133 13,496 13,848 14,119 14,109
Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 3,979 3,990 4,236 4,212 4,452
Gifts of money and contributions 1,593 1,454 2,446 1,763 1,763
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.