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User guide for the Survey of Household Spending

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2. Average expenditure per household for food x 100 Total average expenditure per household Example 2 474 x 100 20 1 12 311 5 How to combine expenditure items into your own groupings Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section The average expenditure per household for different items in a column can be added together to make new subtotals But do not add the percentage reporting values for different items For example to find the average expenditure per household in the lowest income group on food shelter and clothing Statistics Canada 30 62F0026M 2003002 Average expenditure on food clothing shelter lowest income group Example 2 474 427 4 426 7 327 6 How to combine columns of data Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section Columns are combined by using the estimated number of households at the top of each column to calculate the weighted average of the values in the columns To calculate the average expenditure across several columns multiply the estimated number of households by the average expenditure for an item for each of the columns being combined Sum the results Then divide this total by the sum of the estimated number of households For example to find the average expenditure on food for households in the lowest three income groups of households in lowest income group x average expenditure on food of households in next income group x avera
3. Data Processing Weighting and Estimation Estimation of Sampling Error Data Suppression and Confidentiality Changes in the Survey Methodology Custom Tabulations For clients with more specialized data needs custom tabulations can be produced on a cost recovery basis For more information or to enquire about the concepts methods data quality or the product line contact Client Services 1 888 297 7355 or 613 951 7355 income statcan ca Income Statistics Division Statistics Canada 41 62F0026M 2003002 Coefficients of Variation Statistics Canada 42 62F0026M 2003002 Table 1 Coefficients of Variation for Average Household Expenditures 2002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Estimated number of households 0 22 072 0 91 052 058 040 O47 052 048 051 0 48 Average Household size 0 14 034 117 037 034 025 030 035 037 042 0 33 Number of children aged less than 5 180 412 654 479 442 345 359 474 426 371 4 38 Number of children aged 5 to 14 years 1 28 315 436 318 385 281 242 283 3 05 346 268 Number of youths aged 15 to 19 years 234 689 822 684 570 495 474 597 500 524 5 16 Number of youths aged 20 to 24 years 203 641 955 505 455 436 404 533 542 458 4 40 Number of adults aged 25 to 64 years 0 14 0 47 O87 043 041 026 029 035 038 043 0 36 Number of seniors aged 65 years and over 036 088 114 O67 O78 O71 O75 068 053 067 0 84 Number of part time earners 1 14 244 368 256 22
4. Average expenditure per household Percentage reporting 62F0041 Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment Canada Provinces and Selected Metropolitan Areas Variables Detailed dwelling and equipment variables as per Table 2 Coefficients of Variation for Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment Selected metropolitan areas St John s Ottawa Charlottetown Summerside Toronto Halifax Winnipeg Saint John Regina Quebec Saskatoon Montreal Victoria Column headings for Canada each province and each metropolitan area Household characteristics Dwelling characteristics Estimated number of households Percentage reporting Statistics Canada 35 62F0026M 2003002 62F0042 Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment by Income Quintile Canada Variables Detailed dwelling and equipment variables as per Table 2 Coefficients of Variation for Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment Column headings for Canada All classes Lowest Quintile Second Quintile Third Quintile Fourth Quintile Highest Quintile Column headings for each quintile Household characteristics Dwelling characteristics Estimated number of households Percentage reporting 62F0043 Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment by Housing Tenure Canada Variables Detailed dwelling and equipment variables as per Table 2 Coefficients of Variation for Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment Column headings fo
5. Health care supplies 5 61 2419 2035 1342 2139 10 18 950 19 95 14 55 1858 16 20 Medicinal and pharmaceutical products 193 457 500 536 471 360 451 399 409 494 3 56 Prescribed 260 551 625 718 623 434 709 394 460 750 5 14 Other medicines and pharmaceutical products 254 541 800 576 397 452 514 791 7 14 520 4 21 Physicians care 23 91 25 96 23 58 30 09 15 29 21 96 4413 7835 32 05 32 56 23 38 Other health care practitioners 5 19 1580 22 75 33 17 15 34 1150 947 1149 1888 11 62 11 54 Eye care goods and services 243 697 7 20 606 525 423 554 550 558 470 458 Prescription eye wear 234 542 628 641 598 463 498 520 540 468 4 73 Other eye care goods 3 75 10 27 1435 10 27 1142 866 668 1060 894 817 9 72 Eye care services e g surgery exams 11 35 2333 21 22 1794 983 13 04 29 95 21 28 1899 17 13 14 43 Dental services 2 90 703 984 589 765 572 554 656 722 715 571 Hospital care 48 04 39 00 88 56 4256 51 69 4824 66 76 40 91 29 79 43 22 49 52 Other medical services 14 74 1342 2290 3859 2662 15 03 2589 16 93 3226 1693 23 95 Health insurance premiums 181 435 654 474 382 292 580 558 1400 324 383 Statistics Canada 48 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Public hospital medical and drug plans 227 2263 23 11 1064 1744 417 2012 1542 1690 303 3 43 Private health insurance plans 245 444 676 529 414 396 608 594 1512 615 693 Private health care plans e g supplementary coverage extended benefit packages drug plans 2
6. Size of area of residence Sampled dwellings are assigned to the following groups depending on the 1996 population size according to the 1996 census boundaries of the metropolitan area municipality or area in which they are located Urban 1 000 000 and over 500 000 999 999 250 000 499 999 100 000 249 999 30 000 99 999 under 30 000 Rural Urban area For the Survey of Household Spending based on the LFS sampling frame urban areas include all large metropolitan areas even though they do contain some rural areas most small metropolitan areas also called census agglomerations In some cases where a census agglomeration contains a large rural population only the urban portion is considered urban e urban areas based on the census definition Urban areas have minimum population concentrations of 1 000 and a population density of at least 400 per square kilometre based on the previous census population counts Rural area All territory outside urban areas is considered rural Taken together urban and rural areas cover all of Canada Statistics Presented in the Standard Tables Average expenditure per household is equal to the estimated total expenditures of all households divided by the estimated number of households The average is based on all households in a column including households that reported a zero value Percentage reporting is the percentage of households that reported purchasing an item These percenta
7. 140 286 435 297 297 240 273 311 236 360 3 57 Clothing 152 347 478 330 297 273 297 337 269 374 3 93 Footwear 1 47 314 340 324 305 255 287 317 2 71 353 3 57 Accessories 248 505 849 570 507 396 493 589 520 675 4 97 Jewellery and watches 5 63 862 10 63 1033 11 39 9 41 10 25 1065 11 60 12 03 11 23 Statistics Canada 46 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Clothing gifts to non household members 268 473 978 534 630 644 441 534 544 1032 682 Men s and Boys wear 4 years and over 128 311 399 280 294 247 240 309 260 324 3 61 Clothing 150 348 460 347 360 283 287 357 3 04 352 4 05 Footwear 139 362 375 309 297 296 255 376 281 335 344 Accessories 2 50 642 1049 540 653 498 453 567 544 581 681 Jewellery and watches 5 93 10 73 16 34 14 21 1384 13 91 1090 1633 19 36 12 72 14 72 Clothing gifts to non household members 251 557 794 529 644 556 452 630 546 746 5 66 Children s wear under 4 years 332 590 849 743 772 592 649 575 645 672 6 22 Clothing and cloth diapers 5 95 982 12 19 13 04 1282 924 1147 913 12 35 10 11 12 64 Footwear 5 95 1086 13 67 16 18 1601 9 90 11 12 11 78 14 26 1540 12 08 Clothing gifts to non household members 3 227 734 1230 905 788 743 613 792 638 828 5 56 Clothing material notions and services 205 681 717 613 494 449 352 547 457 448 4 76 Clothing material excluding household textiles 5 81 1640 19 90 19 60 12 26 1354 1086 15 54 11 37 10 15 14 37 Notions 5 06 937 12 08 11 29
8. 20 143 100 0 These data do not come from the current year s data Statistics Canada 32 62F0026M 2003002 Products from the Survey of Household Spending Standard Tables 62F0031 Detailed Average Household Expenditure Canada Provinces and Selected Metropolitan Areas Variables Detailed spending variables as per Table 1 Coefficients of Variation for Household Expenditures Selected metropolitan areas St John s Ottawa Charlottetown Summerside Toronto Halifax Winnipeg Saint John Regina Quebec Saskatoon Montreal Victoria Column headings for Canada each province and each metropolitan area Household characteristics Average expenditure per household Percentage reporting Average expenditure per household reporting Percentage of total expenditure 62F0032 Detailed Average Household Expenditure by Household Income Quintile Canada Provinces Variables Detailed spending variables as per Table 1 Coefficients of Variation for Household Expenditures Column headings for Canada and each province All Classes Lowest Quintile Second Quintile Third Quintile Fourth Quintile Highest Quintile Column headings for each quintile Household characteristics Average expenditure per household Percentage reporting Statistics Canada 33 62F0026M 2003002 62F0033 Detailed Average Household Expenditure by Housing Tenure Canada Variables Detailed spending variables as per Table 1 Coefficients
9. 82 26 29 22 60 21 98 47 41 68 29 34 71 44 79 Statistics Canada 56 62F0026M 2003002
10. 928 1362 994 1496 806 1262 8 04 Yarn except for craft yarn 8 12 11 71 14 93 1669 13 19 28 37 1446 2563 12 82 23 01 13 62 Thread and other notions 472 988 11 92 1229 1092 805 959 1051 7 74 1401 7 06 Services 2 32 10 73 815 692 575 509 385 561 573 536 5 19 Dressmaking tailoring clothing storage and other clothing services 736 14 33 24 15 18 02 18 75 1331 1612 1658 13 92 15 15 13 32 Laundry and dry cleaning service 3 21 16 77 1035 868 857 726 512 924 755 738 7 27 Laundromats and self service dry cleaning 446 21 85 15 74 1230 1149 10 76 686 992 13 59 1043 9 54 Maintenance repair and alteration 401 1020 15 77 989 914 697 767 964 746 11 80 7 10 Transportation 141 341 459 400 330 298 262 352 367 441 285 Private transportation 153 356 450 415 343 321 288 378 381 459 3 00 Purchase of automobiles and trucks 3 43 807 953 830 808 769 658 903 7 91 891 7 11 Automobiles 425 10 58 10 93 969 1021 967 767 1069 1086 1010 9 74 Trucks including vans 5 35 12 75 15 66 14 11 1440 12 20 11 18 12 92 10 97 13 51 10 65 Separate sale of automobiles and trucks 8 97 34 35 27 89 22 17 23 11 17 01 22 01 19 87 22 17 21 21 17 32 Purchase of automotive accessories 7 90 1689 37 15 16 28 1986 12 98 1947 1448 11 47 12 81 10 48 Rented and leased automobiles and trucks 3 86 931 13 21 1038 909 634 714 13 63 14 48 12 57 11 16 Rented automobiles and trucks 5 87 17 39 23 78 1443 13 72 23 01 863 11 87 16 75 10 70 10 49 Automobiles 6 87 19 38 23 37 17 54 15 76 2634 988 13 64 18 5
11. How to Use Expenditure Data Tables This section explains the calculations used most frequently to manipulate expenditure data from the Survey of Household Spending Users are strongly advised to refer to this section before doing their own data analysis Expenditure data given in the tables are estimates based on the total sample that is on households that reported buying an item and those that did not Data on percentage reporting are provided in the tables so that users can derive estimates of both the number of households reporting a purchase and the average expenditure of households that reported buying an item 1 How to calculate the number of households reporting a purchase Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section To estimate the number of households reporting a purchase multiply the estimated number of households at the top of the column by the percentage of households reporting and then divide by 100 For example to find the number of households in the lowest income group that had pet expenditures of households x Percentage reporting for pet expenditures 100 Example 463 590 x 29 4 136 295 100 estimated number 2 How to calculate the average expenditure per household reporting a purchase Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section To calculate the average expenditure per household reporting the purchase of an item divide the average household expenditure on that item by the corres
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14. are excluded from the tabulations Negative expenditures Certain values Separate sale of automobiles and trucks Winnings from games of chance and Tax refunds are presented in the data tables Statistics Canada 14 62F0026M 2003002 as negative expenditures since they represent a flow of money into the household instead of out of it Expenditures collected With some minor exceptions the survey includes spending on all goods and services received in 2002 whether paid for before or after 2002 such as on an installment plan Taxes included All expenditures include the Goods and Services Tax provincial retail sales taxes tips customs duties and any other additional charges or taxes Gifts Any expenditure may include gifts given to persons outside the household Only the value of gifts of clothing is reported separately as well as being included in the summary clothing category See also the definition of Gifts of money and contributions Insurance settlements Where an insurance settlement was used to repair or replace property the survey includes only the deductible amount paid for an item Trade ins Where a trade in is used to lower the price of an item most commonly a vehicle the expenditure amount is the total cost after the trade in Real estate transactions are excepted Household Characteristics presented in the same order as they appear on the data tables Number of households in sample refers to
15. capable of being moved on short notice Repairs needed This variable indicates the respondent s perception of the repairs the dwelling needed on December 31 to restore it to its original condition Remodeling additions conversions or energy improvements that would upgrade the dwelling over and above its original condition are not included Major repairs include serious deficiencies in the structural condition of the dwelling as well as the plumbing electrical and heating systems Examples include corroded pipes damaged electrical wiring sagging floors bulging walls damp walls and ceilings and crumbling foundation Minor repairs include deficiencies in the surface or covering materials of the dwelling and less serious deficiencies in the plumbing electrical and heating systems Examples include small cracks in interior walls and ceilings broken light fixtures and switches cracked or broken panes leaking sinks missing shingles or siding and peeling paint Regular maintenance includes painting fixing leaking faucets clogged gutters or eavestroughs etc Tenure This variable gives the housing status of the household on December 31 Note that housing tenure may also refer to the entire reference year See Housing tenure under Classification Categories for Standard Tables Owned with mortgage indicates that the dwelling is owned by a household member and that there is a mortgage as of December 31 Owned with
16. household income Tenants insurance Homeowners insurance are the premiums paid in 2002 for fire and comprehensive policies Premiums covering more than the reference year were not prorated Maintenance repairs and replacements owned living quarters covers expenditures for work contracted out labour cost and materials purchased separately for all types of maintenance repairs and replacements This variable includes expenditures on built in appliances and other equipment and fixture replacements Money spent on additions renovations and new installations is considered to contribute to an increase in assets and is included in Money flows assets loans and other debts An annual data series showing household expenditures on repairs and renovations is available from the Homeowner Repair and Renovation Survey See Homeowner Repair and Renovation Expenditure Catalogue no 62 201 Property taxes and sewage charges refer to the amount billed excluding any rebates Special service charges e g garbage sewage local improvements and water charges are included if these are part of the property tax bill Property taxes that are included in condominium charges are excluded Electricity Respondents sometimes report household electricity payments together with their water and sewage payments This affects estimates of average Statistics Canada 17 62F0026M 2003002 household expenditure and percentage reporting for Electricity an
17. of money and other support payments to persons living inside Canada 846 852 13 76 1262 2284 1467 1609 1465 14 88 13 59 19 25 Gifts of money and other support payments to persons living outside Canada 14 17 4296 91 10 4833 27 54 21 29 20 24 2251 23 67 3567 27 98 Contributions to charity 406 659 9 08 951 825 1316 651 663 7 93 924 11 66 Religious organizations 465 7 93 10 51 1022 873 12 24 815 9 14 10 70 12 26 10 49 Non religious charitable organizations 681 818 10 28 17 44 1490 17 83 1038 811 875 12 16 20 49 Selected items in asset money flows Registered retirement savings plans 5 05 1934 2990 17 77 2530 967 953 12 91 1191 730 9 15 Investment in the home Additions renovations and alterations contract labour and material cost 446 11 76 1536 1248 11 76 932 749 1545 1648 15 57 13 39 New installations of equipment and fixtures contract labour and material cost 9 05 2015 3346 16 09 16 17 21 51 1473 19 80 24 00 1832 27 50 Statistics Canada 53 62F0026M 2003002 Table 2 Coefficients of Variation for Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment 2002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Average household income before tax 0 75 140 242 125 1417 0 99 155 1 30 148 180 1 42 Average household size 0 14 035 140 044 0 28 0 25 0 26 0 37 0 36 0 40 0 34 Average number of rooms per dwelling 0 43 108 160 101 090 091 087 1 06 100 089 0 96 Household characteristics at December 31 Type of dwelling Single det
18. on December 31 2002 This household type may be further broken down into couple households without children without additional persons with children without additional persons and with additional persons Children are never married sons daughters or foster children of the reference person and may be any age Additional persons include sons daughters and foster children whose marital status is other than single never married other relatives by birth or marriage and unrelated persons Lone parent households are households where no spouse of the reference person is present and there is at least one child never married son daughter or foster child of the reference person The lone parent households for which data are presented in this publication do not include any additional persons Other households may be broken down into households composed of relatives only and households having at least one unrelated person Relatives may include Statistics Canada 24 62F0026M 2003002 e sons daughters and foster children of the reference person whose marital status is other than single never married e relatives of the reference person by birth or marriage not spouse son daughter or foster child e spouse of the reference person who was not present in the household on December 31 2002 e other households having at least one household member who is unrelated to the reference person e g lodger roommate employee
19. provinces there are two sets of totals The first set of totals for age sex groups household size and household type at the province level is based on projections at mid January 2003 using the 1996 Census of Population adjusted for net undercoverage Controls for 18 age sex groups are used These are combined with totals for one person households two person households and more than two person households There are also totals for the number of single parent families and couples with never married children Finally for the 14 selected metropolitan areas only two age groups were used number of persons under 18 and number of persons 18 and over The second set of totals is derived from T4 information from Canada Customs and Revenue Agency CCRA formerly Revenue Canada and is intended to ensure that the weighted distribution of income based on wages and salaries in the data set matches that of the Canadian population The switch from 1991 to 1996 Census based population totals and the use of T4 information from CCRA were introduced starting with the 1999 SHS Revised SHS estimates for earlier survey years are available and should be used for year over year comparisons Statistics Canada 8 62F0026M 2003002 Data Quality Sampling Error Sampling errors occur because inferences about the entire population are based on information obtained from only a sample of the population The sample design the variability of the data and
20. the sample size determine the size of the sampling error In addition for a given sample design different methods of estimation will result in different sampling errors The design for the 2002 Survey of Household Spending was a stratified multi stage sampling scheme The sampling errors for multi stage sampling are usually higher than for a simple random sample of the same size However the operational advantages outweigh this disadvantage and the fact that the sample is also stratified improves the precision of estimates Data variability is the difference between members of the population with respect to spending on a specific item or the presence of a specific dwelling characteristic or piece of household equipment In general the greater these differences are the larger the sampling error will be In addition the larger the sample size the smaller the sampling error Standard Error and Coefficient of Variation A common measure of sampling error is the standard error SE Standard error is the degree of variation in the estimates as a result of selecting one particular sample rather than another of the same size and design It has been shown that the true value of the characteristic of interest lies within a range of 1 standard error of the estimate for 68 of all samples and 2 standard errors for 95 of all samples The coefficient of variation CV is the standard error expressed as a percentage of the estimate It i
21. within these selected clusters The LFS sampling frame mainly uses 1991 Census geography and 1991 population counts Data Collection The 2002 Survey of Household Spending was conducted from January to March 2003 Data were collected during a personal interview using a paper questionnaire A copy of this questionnaire is available on request Data Processing and Quality Control Data entry and automated editing for the 2002 Survey of Household Spending took place in the Statistics Canada regional offices This allowed respondents to be contacted in the event that more information was required to resolve an inconsistency on their questionnaires After data entry an automated physical edit system checked for data entry errors Data had to pass a two tier edit system consisting of must pass edits that checked questionnaires for logic and consistency and warnings that indicated that a particular situation was unusual and could require correction Either type of edit resulted in the intervention of a member of one of the specially trained edit resolution teams Further editing of the data took place in head office where invalid responses were corrected Missing responses were imputed using the nearest neighbour method Statistics Canada s Canadian Census Edit and Imputation System CANCEIS was used to insert values from donor records having similar characteristics chosen specifically to fit the variable For example total house
22. 0 242 230 274 308 266 2 56 Number of full time earners 081 266 336 186 217 180 152 213 223 187 1 75 Age of reference person 0 25 054 063 054 050 050 052 050 047 046 0 55 Household income before tax 0 76 147 210 132 120 103 157 133 147 185 1 40 Other money receipts 10 21 2367 36 13 1838 21 29 33 66 1363 26 77 22 55 26 29 19 82 Money flows assets loans and other debts 13 75 60 69 99 72 11335 57 15 31 39 2483 3540 27 59 22 70 30 94 Percentage Homeowner on December 31 0 94 165 3 00 195 183 220 187 178 153 197 1 97 Automobile or truck owners on December 31 060 177 159 137 127 140 123 142 113 1 09 1 09 One person households 062 259 302 131 227 O91 139 158 135 186 1 65 Couple households 045 103 155 113 104 087 093 092 093 098 1 04 Lone parent households 0 83 266 235 199 284 111 193 220 154 099 1 90 With no full time earner 109 212 325 246 226 226 219 277 254 342 239 With one full time earner 150 498 619 426 395 328 282 385 386 363 3 73 With two or more full time earners 192 617 796 567 699 424 348 454 541 478 459 With wife employed full time 190 520 697 487 537 386 370 463 490 476 438 With husband employed full time 118 377 546 330 341 287 220 258 244 232 248 Reference Person aged Under 25 years 9 04 2641 3164 19 29 1785 22 08 1755 19 22 1249 16 71 27 07 25 to 44 years 1 13 302 413 341 286 234 225 286 258 246 2 0 45 to 64 years 1 13 262 390 296 279 214 229 287 2 70 325 243 65 years or older 134 343 371 298 231 262 278 240 234 302 3 09 Total expenditure 0
23. 00 000 and over Column headings for each size of area Household characteristics Dwelling characteristics Estimated number of households Percentage reporting Statistics Canada 37 62F0026M 2003002 Other Products 62M0004 Public use Microdata File Product Description This product consists of a data file and documentation The file provides detailed information on household expenditures dwelling characteristics and ownership of household equipment such as appliances communications and entertainment equipment and vehicles All records have been thoroughly screened to ensure the anonymity of respondents Table of Contents Introduction Record Layout Data Dictionary Technical Information 62 202 Spending Patterns in Canada Product Description This publication presents statistical highlights and key tables from the Survey of Household Spending It includes analytical text summary level tables a detailed table notes and definitions and information about survey methodology and data quality Table of Contents Highlights Introduction Recent Trends The Effect of Income Level Regional Patterns Spending Patterns Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment for Selected Household Types Graphs and Tables Notes and Definitions Statistics Canada 38 62F0026M 2003002 62FO0026MIE2000002 Note to Former Users of Data from the Family Expenditure Survey Product Description Starting with the 1997 survey ye
24. 02 6 59 7 or more 146 3 91 537 348 320 347 287 359 284 311 2 94 Bathrooms 0 06 0 11 0 35 005 0 07 0 11 012 0149 012 022 0 15 1 0 94 176 255 164 189 141 201 221 249 347 257 2 or more 149 540 840 512 493 369 311 364 280 279 2 40 Principal heating equipment Steam or hot water furnaces 3 72 10 03 4 04 5 51 10 09 805 7 86 10 91 7 97 810 7 25 Forced hot air furnaces 1 18 576 744 441 480 587 197 252 153 130 2 69 Other hot air furnaces 10 45 22 09 30 90 2842 25 37 15 98 20 53 25 29 2433 20 16 18 36 Statistics Canada 54 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Heating stoves 6 93 969 15 99 1140 883 900 2363 30 57 33 13 52 45 18 04 Electric heating 2 14 3 60 28 02 601 3 29 258 838 6 24 1694 30 39 4 73 Other 23 50 70 68 74 39 49 28 39 38 100 56 40 53 100 36 0 00 0 00 32 82 Age of principal heating equipment 5 years or less 2 72 639 684 531 630 685 490 888 597 696 6 00 6 to 10 years 3 00 657 888 640 717 718 565 802 810 919 5 41 Over 10 years 1 08 274 420 3417 250 165 246 271 202 351 2 27 Principal heating fuel Oil or other liquid fuel 405 528 237 296 651 681 10 11 2195 1912 2669 10 98 Piped gas 156 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 1252 275 273 164 062 2 56 Bottled gas 20 18 59 34 37 09 2263 34 69 4402 36 79 36 99 33 30 36 62 21 59 Electricity 1 91 356 2802 567 284 226 7 19 481 1389 2566 4 49 Wood 6 81 740 13 56 10 04 597 9 88 2232 21 36 27 56 74 74 18 27 Other 19 52 102 63 104 96 42 92 59 53 0 00 30 01 31 67 4
25. 1 0 10 1 0 67 133 140 123 114 120 149 1 70 182 165 1 29 2 or more 2 11 800 1458 7 08 664 410 401 417 394 530 461 Freezer 1 01 157 290 204 1 77 223 222 181 1 28 197 2 27 Microwave oven 0 36 088 145 070 O71 0 72 076 083 081 061 0 85 Air conditioner 165 19 61 1943 1086 846 453 212 215 380 974 7 97 Window 3 43 30 59 21 79 12 21 9 05 620 553 636 807 1342 11 04 Central 2 52 26 29 39 54 20 73 1651 767 316 348 490 1368 12 69 With a telephone regular or cellular 0 17 060 063 0 28 0 30 036 035 044 029 019 0 31 Telephones includes business use 0 25 069 093 054 044 056 049 049 041 034 0 53 1 248 691 878 551 548 468 531 534 480 593 4 50 Statistics Canada 55 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C 2 176 428 730 428 364 356 380 419 380 417 3 51 3 or more 1 32 361 538 340 420 2 95 246 405 354 291 3 01 Cellular Telephone 1 12 369 436 325 352 2 91 198 290 266 233 2 22 Compact disc player 0 69 1 50 315 1 74 1 73 146 144 1 76 167 141 1 19 Cablevision 1 15 220 505 230 268 267 226 242 3 04 250 1 61 Satellite dish 2 72 563 799 541 477 574 567 572 417 645 6 96 DVD player 1 51 453 846 460 422 395 277 406 367 3 03 3 25 CD writer 182 555 726 535 588 426 354 511 460 401 3 28 Video cassette recorders 0 33 1 02 128 083 0 81 0 72 065 098 085 0 78 0 73 1 102 307 319 263 243 190 203 282 220 287 2 39 2 or more 166 443 560 440 399 339 344 430 329 388 3 60 Home computer 0 81 283 431 251 273 204 147 243 192 191 1 46 In
26. 2003002 Caution should be used when comparing total current consumption to total current consumption from 1996 and earlier Prior to 1997 expenditures for gifts were not included in total current consumption Starting in 1997 these expenditures are reported in the appropriate spending category and therefore contribute to total current consumption See also Shelter and Miscellaneous Food purchased from stores Stores includes frozen food provisioners outdoor farmers markets and stands and all other non service establishments Food purchased from restaurants Restaurants includes refreshment stands snack bars vending machines mobile canteens caterers and coffee wagons Shelter includes expenditures on principal accommodation either owned or rented and on other accommodation such as vacation homes or accommodation while travelling Expenditure on owned principal accommodation includes regular mortgage payments if any This definition of shelter differs from that of the Family Expenditure Survey last conducted in 1996 See Note to Former Users of Data from the Family Expenditure Survey 62FOO26MIE2000002 available free on the Statistics Canada website www statcan ca Rent refers to the net household expense for rent after adjusting for rebates and for any use of the dwelling for business No adjustment for partial subletting to non household members is made Receipts from this activity are considered part of
27. 23 42 18 35 15 5562 64 26 1440 25 02 1868 19 97 1366 28 76 Post secondary 494 984 2342 1202 946 934 931 11 79 858 959 895 Other courses and lessons excluding driving 5 04 1097 1412 1385 1203 950 914 941 12 77 1041 9 94 Other educational services 1746 6045 76 70 4059 5445 61 79 30 10 23 14 59 78 3044 27 63 Tobacco products and alcoholic beverages 157 429 638 391 386 301 318 482 404 419 3 94 Tobacco products and smokers supplies 228 601 865 496 537 449 487 663 576 483 6 15 Cigarettes cigars and tobacco 2 29 615 869 497 541 451 490 670 580 484 6 17 Statistics Canada 51 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Matches and other smokers supplies 7 77 16 33 14 52 10 63 17 58 15 05 13 98 1643 18 76 23 43 28 73 Alcoholic beverages 193 464 904 610 439 399 363 520 405 586 383 Served on licensed premises 3 50 10 73 16 04 10 17 824 907 614 775 7 02 849 5 89 Purchased from stores 196 426 722 587 473 355 377 556 505 586 4 70 Self made alcoholic beverages 6 88 15 52 2857 23 34 17 52 2433 11 77 2666 15 17 1436 12 55 Games of chance net 866 714 1114 772 964 941 1853 9 02 15 32 15 84 12 04 Government run lotteries 3 67 519 971 658 544 626 809 7 72 598 724 583 Casinos slot machines and video lottery terminals 20 00 2485 23 04 26 77 2439 1840 3662 12 29 2684 2343 24 22 Bingos 12 01 1280 26 58 21 00 19 83 29 39 2429 1828 21 37 2408 26 53 Non government lotteries and raffle tickets 15 70 1034 1619 885 949 1874
28. 2708 1621 639 1079 8482 Winnings from games of chance 7 50 14 10 35 17 22 84 11 14 11 88 15 09 11 18 18 82 12 81 11 41 Miscellaneous expenditures 3 03 7 10 840 576 990 526 615 510 508 8 02 5 89 Expenses on other property owned 11 23 31 95 2063 26 61 32 98 22 30 2086 23 25 2495 31 14 21 83 Legal services not related to dwellings 10 78 30 57 45 35 19 71 4222 1807 19 76 2688 19 07 20 96 25 22 Financial services 345 835 781 837 590 448 684 420 683 11 11 5 80 Service charges from banks 164 368 535 341 472 327 338 429 431 282 363 Stock and bond commissions 11 63 40 60 42 19 47 88 26 32 25 17 2296 20 73 2491 21 88 19 54 Administration fees 15 90 5339 4919 2490 37 31 21 64 2531 15 14 2882 4222 26 65 Other financial services 3 50 11 50 1458 799 986 606 691 827 10 26 800 8 22 Dues to unions and professional associations 240 943 15 71 608 754 456 513 606 648 623 4 91 Contributions and dues for social clubs and other organizations 640 1333 20 28 938 13 22 16 08 11 25 17 96 1243 13 78 11 61 Forfeit of deposits fines and money lost or stolen 10 49 3534 3037 15 88 33 07 21 52 21 56 21 15 1203 949 11 42 Tools and equipment purchased for work 830 2837 19 23 2195 23 91 1885 15 95 3404 20 00 17 55 19 27 Other miscellaneous goods and services 15 39 2986 3739 2492 23 38 36 92 29 26 1943 2045 33 21 23 63 Goods 18 92 33 26 58 84 35 72 5649 45 00 34 04 32 78 59 34 41 63 39 01 Services 18 01 3027 4368 2695 2555 39 95 3457 2345 20 09 39 82 27 86 Personal taxes 156
29. 2FO026MIE2000003 Both documents are available free of charge on the Statistics Canada web site www statcan ca Historical data from the 1997 and 1998 surveys of household spending the 1996 Family Expenditure Survey and the 1996 Household Facilities and Equipment Survey have been re weighted using the weighting methodology described in the section Weighting Historical comparisons between data from those surveys and data from recent years of the Survey of Household Spending should generally be made with re weighted data although the differences between survey estimates from the old and new methodologies appear to be minimal at a summary level Certain populations or variables however may be more strongly affected Statistics Canada 13 62F0026M 2003002 Notes and Definitions This section presents information for General Concepts Household Characteristics Selected Household Expenditures Dwelling Characteristics Household Equipment Classification Categories for Standard Tables Statistics Presented in the Standard Tables General Concepts Survey universe The 2002 Survey of Household Spending has two reference periods and therefore two survey universes Expenditure data are collected for the calendar year 2002 Dwelling characteristics and data about household equipment are collected as of December 31 2002 Tabulation Expenditure data are tabulated for full year households only Dwelling characteristics and household
30. 3 26 49 04 40 62 Principal heating fuel for hot water Oil or other liquid fuel 5 91 929 246 420 11 26 1389 17 02 103 63 64 61 36 99 20 05 Piped gas 156 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 1299 272 303 212 090 2 42 Electricity 1 49 133 1047 345 1 11 128 547 343 699 1240 3 67 Other heating fuel or no running hot water 14 19 23 06 18 10 14 38 2236 53 79 31 04 3342 3185 43 95 25 23 Bottled gas 16 79 39 13 2627 1862 34 99 100 44 33 95 40 30 36 60 43 95 25 23 Wood 23 56 34 32 2645 2890 3280 75 46 5082 5383 9938 0 00 0 00 Other 68 45 0 00 104 96 102 07 0 00 10041 0 00 0 00 99 72 0 00 0 00 No running hot water 30 35 58 70 103 14 50 34 100 79 0 00 0 00 100 08 7431 0 00 0 00 Principal cooking fuel Piped gas 5 51 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 29 23 818 23 71 16 22 955 8 26 Electricity 0 38 051 123 0 71 049 044 090 0 29 068 088 0 88 Other cooking fuel 11 42 17 94 1486 12 43 20 00 34 23 3466 73 19 69 60 44 76 26 70 Oil or other liquid fuel 29 22 32 62 54 22 4262 0 00 100 36 0 00 100 54 0 00 10290 71 76 Bottled gas 13 09 19 47 15 72 14 16 23 56 37 91 39 23 100 18 101 00 5146 28 92 Wood 35 08 58 82 52 12 35 88 38 13 100 12 7499 0 00 99 38 0 00 0 00 Other 87 86 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 10248 99 16 Household equipment at December 31 Washing machine 0 64 104 207 1 55 120 1 08 146 161 114 125 1 45 Clothes dryer 0 70 114 201 161 127 1 26 161 150 118 1 21 1 53 Dishwasher 1 07 436 486 374 3 00 227 227 298 245 208 1 99 Refrigerators 0 05 0 09 0 00 0 05 006 0 05 010 0 06 000 03
31. 30 958 1284 7 22 Horticultural services snow and garbage removal 469 21 02 842 1275 1750 583 9 24 10 57 9 11 1615 9 38 Other household supplies 169 3 95 534 386 377 346 325 519 3 76 3 92 3 51 Other household operation 130 267 570 454 297 245 255 327 240 278 2 65 Household furnishings and equipment 179 356 475 566 390 313 352 385 357 363 3 68 Household furnishings 264 499 570 983 613 448 503 534 471 552 5 61 Furniture 3 12 670 7 81 1239 7 74 526 600 678 553 671 7 18 Rugs mats and underpadding 7 86 10 81 17 10 12 05 1456 17 31 12 67 14 27 17 06 15 28 17 04 Window coverings and household textiles 3 84 539 10 98 750 821 611 726 823 626 944 7 11 Art antiques and decorative ware 569 899 13 23 15 03 10 68 11 16 1030 833 15 88 9 78 10 77 Works of art carvings and vases 6 53 1480 25 38 25 80 19 60 16 70 10 71 1263 25 53 15 00 16 13 Antiques 22 70 70 02 37 46 31 49 43 11 29 91 31 79 31 13 47 97 39 45 47 17 Glass mirrors and mirror and picture frames 5 27 863 14 10 861 1080 13 89 873 953 7 81 11 89 7 75 Household equipment 189 346 627 479 449 380 377 437 465 393 3 76 Household appliances 267 482 795 573 540 564 519 597 603 561 6 25 Room air conditioners portable humidifiers and dehumidifiers 8 63 20 50 25 33 21 29 15 16 1446 14 10 20 94 1664 25 14 25 88 Refrigerators and freezers 490 9 29 13 17 10 96 1222 10 27 941 11 84 11 72 10 53 12 28 Statistics Canada 45 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L
32. 340 445 260 364 250 308 320 386 306 3 84 Income tax on reference year income 154 301 3654 248 211 231 311 284 359 296 3 70 Income tax on income received before reference year 8 55 20 74 27 72 13 00 42 25 13 57 14 74 1532 1841 1684 19 89 Other personal taxes 23 18 96 77 101 65 86 36 47 58 6240 4040 79 13 76 22 72 57 53 04 Tax refunds 2 62 5 72 849 699 5 44 5 11 4 87 4 89 5 35 6 25 6 89 Personal insurance payments and pension contributions 4 13 233 356 2 78 383 2 15 993 316 276 201 2 06 Life insurance premiums 2 90 7 79 1065 969 692 432 619 738 795 672 841 Annuity contracts and transfers to RRIFs 76 43 58 14 54 15 87 59 6669 61 58 9990 5588 55 90 4853 29 21 Employment insurance premiums 0 29 0 87 105 070 O71 O51 060 066 069 068 0 68 Statistics Canada 52 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Retirement and pension fund payments 101 289 422 308 538 187 201 219 259 259 253 Canada and Quebec pension plan 0 76 159 389 160 162 122 159 141 192 134 1 67 Other government pension funds 467 780 11 60 1006 891 7 71 1210 869 10 27 1491 10 49 Other retirement or pension funds excluding RRSP 405 15 95 1786 1280 2661 878 739 865 7 52 1036 11 21 Gifts of money and contributions 458 558 1442 740 1015 854 840 813 836 834 10 73 Money and support payments 6 58 7 98 23 90 10 03 15 31 11 38 1230 1239 11 91 11 55 14 84 Alimony and child support 13 80 2545 22 17 17 57 21 18 17 91 30 78 3040 19 06 19 68 28 96 Gifts
33. 5 11 33 12 13 Rental fees including insurance and mileage 6 83 19 30 23 03 19 14 16 78 24 94 10 42 13 20 19 29 11 98 11 86 Gas and other fuels 8 84 20 08 30 31 19 28 19 09 31 39 13 76 23 12 21 11 14 06 13 72 Other expenses for rented automobiles 23 08 57 54 62 15 71 44 4042 4949 3997 53 52 42 83 29 72 38 78 Trucks including vans 10 17 44 75 59 75 2664 29 38 22 29 1750 2546 37 53 2857 19 28 Rental fees including insurance and mileage 10 18 39 78 5963 2858 29 25 23 04 1785 25 53 34 56 28 08 18 98 Gas and other fuels 11 85 6448 6448 2748 31 98 2560 21 26 27 95 4569 32 78 22 27 Other expenses for rented trucks 39 77 101 55 101 85 46 93 4866 51 76 47 71 73 65 68 88 57 59 53 97 Statistics Canada 47 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Leasing fees for automobiles and trucks 4 23 9 78 13 82 1099 960 657 7 91 1523 16 20 14 78 13 38 Regular leasing fees for automobiles and trucks 417 976 1345 1113 955 665 7 91 1496 17 36 1362 11 81 Other leasing fees for automobiles and trucks 1449 40 77 4476 40 54 3881 30 51 21 19 4054 34 06 55 55 27 88 Operation of owned and leased automobiles and trucks 0 95 197 291 212 176 195 192 193 176 214 1 66 Gasoline and other fuels 1 18 260 3 73 241 232 228 244 237 2 25 295 2 05 Tires batteries and other automotive parts and supplies 247 427 618 386 447 464 509 584 468 649 5 84 Maintenance and repair 2 14 577 718 522 482 424 411 622 518 567 3 97 Garage rent and
34. 6 66 16 86 12 38 12 94 15 15 12 15 15 79 13 23 1465 13 92 Insurance premiums 8 43 1464 20 67 15 78 1496 1448 1545 14 75 1642 2348 16 11 Electricity water and fuel 10 17 16 96 28 38 20 03 1769 16 13 1838 21 56 16 64 22 82 18 05 Other expenses for owned vacation home 15 29 4582 94 23 32 66 37 70 31 21 2432 2852 36 81 46 17 29 22 Traveller accommodation 3 20 810 10 67 11 62 10 17 694 597 677 539 686 7 05 Hotels and motels 2 90 788 10 67 13 52 752 611 558 766 587 721 649 Other accommodation away from home 9 07 2210 33 92 2295 1861 19 48 15 07 13 73 17 08 19 59 20 49 Household operation 0 90 183 340 257 190 1 52 1 76 239 181 201 2 20 Communications 0 82 173 244 179 191 148 163 163 1 74 199 1 82 Telephone 0 82 163 230 165 1 77 160 163 150 148 1 71 1 95 Purchase of telephones and equipment 3 21 7 97 13 55 7 55 845 7 80 556 904 824 765 7 24 Statistics Canada 44 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Telephone services 0 83 160 228 164 172 168 1 65 152 150 1 77 1 95 Telephone service 0 82 163 227 164 172 169 163 151 148 1 76 1 92 Installation and repairs 8 75 17 90 18 18 22 95 18 57 12 00 15 75 24 08 24 81 20 41 25 18 Cellular services 2 07 464 7 09 640 539 448 374 539 576 510 4 73 Internet services 158 6 70 780 473 587 3 51 295 419 534 418 2 79 Postal and other communication services 2 13 535 7 08 465 636 513 403 472 461 431 436 Child care expenses 485 11 16 12 59 911 987 647 850 11 5
35. 68 136 242 150 143 1 09 140 135 129 141 1 39 Total current consumption 0 59 134 248 159 137 103 118 1 29 121 147 1 20 Food 0 57 132 209 126 125 105 114 119 133 121 1 30 Food purchased from stores 0 57 127 188 113 123 112 1143 130 138 129 1 27 Locally and on day trips 0 57 127 182 112 121 112 113 131 144 134 129 While on trips overnight or longer 4 32 16 14 23 36 981 1580 11 44 849 752 832 730 6 90 Statistics Canada 43 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P EI N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Board paid to private households 15 56 31 72 28 85 27 79 19 73 13 39 33 98 27 93 2483 19 76 28 59 Day board and children s lunches 12 43 4759 29 27 3280 1795 13 23 36 51 37 61 27 60 22 03 36 28 While on trips overnight or longer 27 70 37 92 72 71 4436 60 69 42 42 42 44 4232 44 36 38 24 43 24 Food purchased from restaurants 148 423 493 360 361 289 285 290 318 325 3 30 Shelter 0 79 212 299 188 1 77 157 148 184 199 1 84 1 64 Principal accommodation 0 80 222 303 183 170 158 147 4192 196 197 1 69 Rented living quarters 2 23 761 940 547 539 340 436 530 498 553 462 Rent 224 755 858 548 537 342 434 530 504 551 4 64 Tenants maintenance repairs and alterations 11 37 35 29 87 12 29 70 32 50 15 11 2382 37 76 36 53 47 72 21 43 Tenants insurance premiums 3 61 16 41 1839 12 20 1250 534 822 977 13 99 938 8 65 Owned living quarters 152 393 489 350 337 326 275 323 344 345 3 08 Regular mortgage payments 1 99 547 678 429 463 425 369 412 501 459 3 71 Maintenan
36. 69 17 46 20 24 19 78 27 83 15 98 21 97 Recreation vehicles and associated services 5 95 13 34 27 64 15 67 12 07 11 32 13 14 1246 11 34 16 33 14 20 Purchase of recreation vehicles 8 09 16 75 37 50 22 94 17 27 14 65 19 13 15 57 16 02 20 91 21 63 Bicycles parts and accessories 6 86 13 81 2428 15 20 1643 13 82 13 54 14 72 15 24 17 67 12 82 Other recreational vehicles and outboard motors 9 12 17 10 43 35 2545 1889 16 67 2249 1648 17 76 2260 24 81 Travel trailers 20 82 41 68 99 76 9862 61 98 29 95 76 11 40 12 61 32 42 95 60 52 Tent trailers 31 63 100 39 83 67 68 35 73 67 71 06 52 29 69 92 170 17 68 86 71 64 Motorcycles 28 47 64 90 82 42 9419 66 11 39 65 97 71 4854 51 03 34 89 399 28 Snowmobiles 17 11 19 93 66 86 91 36 40 17 42 81 44 22 29 61 29 36 50 13 47 47 Motor homes 29 90 74 70 0 00 0 00 100 64 99 05 60 11 61 78 62 14 46 11 55 43 Truck campers 35 96 65 05 143 88 102 42 99 31 0 00 100 71 72 40 102 65 55 05 59 91 Boats 28 57 45 90 179 26 105 43 70 15 66 03 54 74 3865 43 30 69 23 65 03 Outboard motors and personal watercraft 28 56 4267 0 00 6237 87 00 7832 48 29 5789 55 28 63 25 72 53 All terrain vehicles 15 21 21 42 60 83 2842 25 20 35 36 3148 60 57 32 62 3043 38 93 Other recreation vehicle purchases 139 02 45 17 0 00 64 91 64 79 70 98 44 09 404 92 58 80 111 69 213 26 Operation of recreational vehicles 478 989 17 72 1016 836 9 92 10 00 9 10 983 977 10 30 Bicycle maintenance and repairs 7 01 35 41 33 62 33 27 34 27 12 11 15 77 17 93 18 97 1665 13 48 Expen
37. 7 10 04 10 11 15 19 Child care outside the home 5 00 13 71 15 15 9 51 1186 673 835 12 53 12 03 11 43 19 51 Day care centres 5 64 17 70 17 91 15 18 17 33 7 19 10 56 13 29 14 13 12 07 13 47 Other child care outside the home 12 00 22 74 29 37 15 78 17 30 16 50 1564 2460 19 02 2481 57 43 Child care in the home 11 36 15 37 29 72 2840 20 53 15 18 19 64 22 72 19 59 2245 21 77 Domestic and other custodial services 540 19 64 33 63 29 80 1283 10 17 9 06 19 63 15 57 13 41 14 06 Pet expenses 2 72 485 7 21 745 480 5 20 530 969 692 556 4 97 Pet food 3 17 477 749 665 515 5 74 659 789 579 7 06 4 69 Purchase of pets 10 70 20 27 30 43 4642 2148 16 95 22 50 46 69 45 40 16 17 14 81 Purchase of pet related goods 340 756 10 72 789 738 673 695 938 844 759 6 96 Veterinarian and other services 410 10 69 1406 894 697 810 7 27 9 09 895 866 7 61 Household cleaning supplies 130 225 506 265 219 293 255 270 236 251 278 Paper plastic and foil household supplies 116 214 407 264 225 229 244 293 269 236 2 24 Stationery excluding school supplies 1 97 333 612 356 427 445 380 376 404 444 331 Other paper and plastic supplies 125 246 453 3 11 243 245 266 330 308 261 2 47 Garden supplies and services 2 18 886 600 661 867 376 401 487 353 660 4 33 Nursery and greenhouse stock cut flowers and decorative plants 219 746 7 55 699 525 418 383 595 400 661 4 81 Fertilizers soil and soil conditioners 2 94 692 11 48 816 1263 7 55 528 860 627 568 5 85 Pesticides 4 11 929 11 95 10 23 1060 10 94 784 8
38. 730 29 20 12 19 1831 17 37 15 05 27 09 17 59 27 19 14 22 Children s camps 835 35 21 2256 1451 2450 23 86 1184 1136 17 70 14 16 11 84 Package travel tours 546 23 01 2488 17 03 16 76 12 02 899 1345 13 32 13 92 11 30 Other recreational services 1869 799 3037 1963 1293 16 00 39 26 1658 16 86 2666 13 60 Reading materials and other printed matter 177 391 447 371 350 406 318 348 364 346 471 Newspapers 2 16 409 469 447 344 357 454 344 339 337 3 82 Magazines and periodicals 250 653 795 518 587 457 499 543 457 7 04 4 70 Books and pamphlets excluding school books 330 725 7 27 648 744 1043 517 590 698 535 7 21 Maps sheet music and other printed matter 5 03 1631 2091 1401 1643 1805 7 76 1142 11 82 10 71 11 33 Services related to reading materials e g duplicating library fees 10 68 1524 35 01 1415 1875 1586 11 56 19 76 1336 876 39 89 Education 3 79 739 19 72 1006 808 587 716 766 649 7 03 685 Supplies 409 862 1637 1013 793 652 842 10 09 888 591 10 41 Kindergarten nursery elementary and secondary 3 09 463 751 574 623 550 697 621 490 624 6 33 Post secondary 720 1843 33 29 22 27 17 09 13 20 13 14 2338 2048 11 95 17 36 Textbooks 4 13 697 17 42 10 75 1028 680 834 1058 10 04 883 867 Kindergarten nursery elementary and secondary 682 622 4298 2987 2281 686 21 58 3474 16 03 13 92 17 60 Post secondary 448 957 17 95 11 09 1084 894 850 11 07 1067 975 917 Tuition fees 478 927 2245 1187 985 7 90 879 1001 792 861 861 Kindergarten nursery elementary and secondary 15
39. 85 484 854 610 481 429 747 630 600 7 91 10 46 Dental plans 5 71 10 21 20 08 12 87 25 64 15 54 1334 12 15 25 56 1258 8 86 Accident and disability insurance 482 10 20 11 77 1263 9 78 11 07 944 11 57 31 63 1146 10 50 Personal care 105 233 335 228 225 196 204 237 202 217 294 Personal care supplies and equipment 1 32 253 392 308 282 237 261 335 273 239 3 75 Personal care preparations 1 49 294 438 326 314 267 287 370 291 294 481 Disposable diapers 431 10 34 1163 1248 935 884 829 901 881 6863 11 26 Electric hair styling and personal care appliances 3 54 763 1146 7 76 920 889 673 998 714 7 01 7 22 Other personal care supplies and equipment 235 478 644 490 517 502 468 522 712 444 459 Personal care services 134 296 440 257 289 248 254 283 2 53 3 05 3 95 Hair grooming 1 22 275 424 251 260 234 243 263 241 271 266 Other personal services 445 13 14 13 56 954 1330 7 06 739 886 9 02 898 16 74 Recreation 150 456 543 343 355 286 292 371 274 419 285 Recreation equipment and associated services 1 57 505 625 395 416 316 304 346 360 374 3 24 Sports and athletic equipment 3 13 933 1259 10 18 1062 784 550 708 671 671 7 66 Playground equipment above ground pools and accessories 8 21 2346 2843 2282 1652 1644 1428 17 14 1815 1882 17 24 Toys and children s vehicles 260 597 951 658 701 546 496 585 549 604 493 Electronic games and parts 3 76 947 1357 7 98 996 819 696 978 734 7 78 8 00 Video game rental 489 12 98 17 99 1030 15 02 12 71 9 36 12 22 10 50 1010 11 47 Artists material
40. Catalogue no 62FO026MIE No 002 ISSN 1708 8879 ISBN 0 662 35748 5 Research Paper Household expenditures research paper series User guide for the Survey of Household Spending 2002 by Expenditure Surveys Section Income Statistics Division 5 Jean Talon Building Ottawa K1A OT6 Telephone 613 951 7355 This paper represents the views of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Statistics Canada ivi Hen Soir Se Canada How to obtain more information Specific inquiries about this product and related statistics or services should be directed to Client Services Income Statistics Division Statistics Canada Ottawa Ontario K1A OT6 613 951 7355 888 297 7355 income statcan ca For information on the wide range of data available from Statistics Canada you can contact us by calling one of our toll free numbers You can also contact us by e mail or by visiting our Web site National inquiries line 1 800 263 1136 National telecommunications device for the hearing impaired 1 800 363 7629 Depository Services Program inquiries 1 800 700 1033 Fax line for Depository Services Program 1 800 889 9734 E mail inquiries infostats statcan ca Web site www statcan ca Ordering and subscription information This product Catalogue no 62FOO026MIE2003002 is available on Internet free Users can obtain single issues at http www statcan ca cgi bin downpub research cgi Standards of service to the public
41. PEI N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Cooking stoves and ranges 6 69 1401 19 20 13 80 1389 12 86 13 86 16 04 15 55 20 59 15 07 Microwave and convection ovens 5 96 13 94 21 09 13 93 1255 15 30 10 19 13 21 22 10 1462 14 68 Gas barbecues 5 80 11 06 1443 13 64 11 72 13 94 971 11 53 15 41 18 06 14 92 Small electric food preparation appliances 2 90 615 9 33 587 974 622 511 710 633 707 8 39 Washers and dryers 5 30 11 08 16 52 13 53 10 83 10 31 11 05 1148 1043 11 55 11 61 Vacuum cleaners and other rug cleaning equipment 6 63 14 17 21 85 17 74 17 10 15 12 1247 13 85 17 44 14 08 11 62 Portable dishwashers 12 58 3266 42 07 3295 28 41 21 71 2564 3218 34 27 29 77 27 23 Sewing machines 15 03 31 27 39 79 4261 27 29 3437 2882 25 77 26 28 35 17 33 37 Other electric equipment and appliances 6 38 869 10 81 718 1168 786 1294 704 914 778 8 94 Attachments and parts for major appliances 420 800 1193 798 815 969 833 655 813 821 547 Home and workshop tools and equipment 3 68 920 11 01 876 888 7 19 735 851 927 962 7 57 Power tools and equipment 417 10 91 13 50 10 87 1110 862 827 10 25 12 30 1049 10 43 Other tools 5 59 839 10 86 1044 764 891 10 78 820 917 17 50 7 07 Lawn garden and snow removal tools and equipment 5 05 10 61 1880 1542 1230 11 35 953 15 93 1428 1449 8 40 Power lawn mowers and garden equipment 8 04 16 72 25 97 26 05 18 37 17 63 1549 2259 23 91 23 07 14 90 Snow blowers 14 78 18 79 40 12 1945 1863 27 86 2739 29 74 46 61 37 42 55 22 Other lawn garden and sn
42. This ensures that expenditures at least at the aggregate level match household income and other sources of funds Several features of the survey help respondents recall their expenditures as accurately as possible First the survey period is the calendar year because it is probably more clearly defined in people s minds than any other period of similar length Second expenditure on food about 11 of the average budget in 2002 can be estimated as either weekly or monthly expenses depending on the respondent s purchasing habits Third expenses on smaller items purchased at regular intervals are usually estimated on the basis of amount and frequency of purchase Purchases of large items automobiles for example are recalled fairly easily as are expenditures on rent property taxes and monthly payments on mortgages However even with these items the accuracy of data depends on the respondent s ability to remember and willingness to consult records Non Response Error Non response error occurs in sample surveys because not all potential respondents cooperate fully The extent of non response varies from partial non response to total non response Total non response occurs when the interviewer is unable to contact the respondent no member of the household is able to provide information or the respondent refuses to participate in the survey Total non response is handled by adjusting the basic survey weight for responding households t
43. a Percentage homeowners December 31 2002 is the percentage of households living in a dwelling owned with or without a mortgage by a member of the household at December 31 of the reference year Average age of reference person acts as a general age indicator for the household and uses the reference person s age in years as of December 31 Prior to 1996 in the Family Expenditure Survey the age of the husband was used for couple households and the age of the reference person for all other households See Reference person under General Concepts Selected Household Expenditures presented in the same order as they appear on the data tables Total expenditure includes Total current consumption Personal taxes Personal insurance payments and pension contributions and Gifts of money and contributions Caution should be used when comparing total expenditure to total expenditure from 1996 and earlier See Note to Former Users of Data from the Family Expenditure Survey 62F0026MIE2000002 available free on the Statistics Canada website www statcan ca Total current consumption shows the expenses incurred during the reference year for food shelter household operations household furnishings and equipment clothing transportation health care personal care recreation reading materials education tobacco products and alcoholic beverages games of chance and a miscellaneous group of items Statistics Canada 16 62F0026M
44. ached 122 204 295 225 195 284 256 204 167 261 2 60 Single attached 459 11 70 2060 1860 13 47 1023 7 55 13 78 13 18 977 9 62 Apartment 197 964 962 606 608 273 443 580 698 661 4 24 Other 7 60 23 86 26 37 21 27 16 63 21 37 30 65 24 28 17 72 17 33 14 11 Repairs needed Major 4 38 13 84 20 82 833 853 886 9 07 9 24 1075 1138 8 36 Minor 2 99 7 21 1202 784 7 24 585 604 683 548 752 7 17 None 0 75 172 261 185 188 1 51 153 182 170 210 1 38 Tenure Owned 0 93 167 3 08 1 96 178 221 183 188 166 200 2 04 With mortgage 1 70 449 552 412 3 92 372 340 340 373 422 3 37 Without mortgage 166 321 612 401 340 425 312 377 324 437 3 57 Rented 175 555 733 461 456 295 368 452 443 529 3 65 Year of move 2002 3 24 999 10 91 826 742 655 686 716 808 720 6 09 1997 2001 165 567 693 501 458 342 333 397 390 3 72 3 30 Before 1997 109 199 393 244 191 217 219 228 221 334 2 46 Period of construction 2001 2002 10 29 22 76 2684 21 57 25 38 27 40 16 84 4358 23 17 24 43 24 68 1991 2000 450 1043 11 70 992 820 9 39 936 1540 1462 12 97 6 98 1981 1990 3 16 712 1267 7 79 7 06 656 648 746 749 786 6 31 1971 1980 243 527 7 58 649 556 502 554 679 543 625 4 87 1961 1970 3 19 839 1166 10 21 755 626 613 818 7 20 892 6 83 1946 1960 3 20 884 1426 824 937 589 621 7 77 682 819 8 25 Before 1946 3 65 10 11 822 566 664 683 686 7 36 7 68 13 09 9 65 Number of rooms 1 4 197 898 763 593 504 339 422 474 580 603 3 68 5 2 75 612 957 679 572 489 621 781 660 749 5 30 6 3 04 590 843 697 628 694 588 601 671 7
45. anada s 10 provinces The following groups were excluded from the survey those living on Indian reserves and crown lands official representatives of foreign countries living in Canada and their families members of religious and other communal colonies members of the Canadian Armed Forces living in Military Camps people living in residences for senior citizens and people living full time in institutions for example inmates of penal institutions and chronic care patients living in hospitals and nursing homes The survey covers about 98 of the population in the 10 provinces Information was not gathered from persons temporarily living away from their families for example students at university because it would be gathered from their families if selected In this way double counting of such individuals was avoided Data from part year households were excluded from estimates of average household spending However these data were included in the estimates for dwelling characteristics and household equipment and in the calculation of the Survey of Household Spending response rate Data from part year households are also required as input into Canada s System of National Accounts Part year households are composed entirely of persons who were members of other households for part of the reference year There were 475 part year households in the sample in 2002 Survey Content and Reference Period Detailed information was col
46. anizations forfeits of deposits fines money lost Statistics Canada 18 62F0026M 2003002 or stolen the purchase of tools and equipment for work and other miscellaneous goods and services Caution should be used when comparing current data for Miscellaneous expenditures to data from the Family Expenditure Survey 1996 or earlier For a complete description of the differences between the two variables see Note to Former Users of Data from the Family Expenditure Survey 62FOO026MIE2000002 available free on the Statistics Canada website www statcan ca Personal taxes are income taxes paid in 2002 on 2002 and previous years incomes plus other personal taxes e g gift taxes Newfoundland and Labrador school tax minus income tax refunds received in 2002 Tax credits such as Federal Child Tax Benefits Goods and Services Tax Credits and provincial tax credits are included in Average household income before taxes Personal insurance payments and pension contributions includes payments for life insurance annuities employment insurance public and private pension plans and similar items For certain uses of the data some of these items might be regarded as savings although the relationship between the expenditure and any increase in savings may not be easily determined This category of expenditure was called Security prior to the 1996 survey Registered retirement savings plan RRSP contributions are included in Money flows asse
47. ar the Family Expenditure Survey was replaced by the Survey of Household Spending SHS This note provides information to users and prospective users of data from the SHS about the differences between the SHS and the former Family Expenditure Survey Topics covered include sample size number of questions coverage and concepts Table of Contents Introduction Sample Size Number of Questions Coverage Interest and Principal No Longer Collected Separately Other Conceptual Changes Minor Changes 62FO026MIE2000003 Note to Former Users of Data from the Household Facilities and Equipment Survey Product Description Starting with the 1997 survey year the Household Facilities and Equipment Survey was replaced by the Survey of Household Spending SHS This note provides information to users and prospective users of data from the SHS about the differences between the SHS and the former Household Facilities and Equipment Survey Topics covered include sample size weighting collection method reference period and concepts Table of Contents Introduction Survey Differences Statistics Canada 39 62F0026M 2003002 62F0026MIE2000004 Incentive effect on response rates for the 1997 Canadian Survey of Household Spending Product Description Due to the heavy response burden placed on respondents of this survey it was decided for the 1997 survey to test the effect of incentives on response rates Table of Contents Executive Summar
48. arded as groups of persons acting collectively for the benefit of the community Estimates from the National Accounts include expenditures made in the northern territories SHS estimates include data for the north only for years when the survey is conducted there The SHS has included northern data in its Canada totals for 1998 1999 and 2001 It is planned to conduct the SHS in the north only every second year starting in 2001 Data on the expenditures of persons living alone who died emigrated or were institutionalized during the survey year are excluded from the SHS but are included in the National Accounts Unlike the SHS the National Accounts include data for Canadian residents based overseas such as diplomats and military personnel The SHS presents information about the purchase of both new and used goods In the National Accounts personal expenditure includes spending on new goods but for used goods only the dealer mark up on items previously owned by the personal sector is included Several expenditures that are not directly incurred by household members are assigned imputed values in the National Accounts For example National Accounts assigns imputed values for the following the cost of farm products consumed directly in farm households and the cost of items received by employees in lieu of wages An imputation is also made for household expenditure on the financial intermediation services of banks and other financial instit
49. b group of households e g the percentage of all clothing expenditures made by households in the lowest income group It is calculated by dividing the total expenditure on an item for a given sub group of households to calculate see above by the total expenditure on the item for all households and then multiplying by 100 For example to find the percentage of all expenditures on food made by households in the lowest income group Average expenditure per lowest income households on food x of households in lowest income group Average expenditure for all households on food x of households for all classes Example 2 474 x 463 590 x 100 1 77 5 960 x 10 900 500 estimated number x 100 Example Data Summary Average Household Expenditure by Household Income Group All Classes Under 10 000 10 000 14 999 15 000 19 999 Estimated number of 10 900 500 463 590 882 370 797 740 households Average household size 2 61 1 29 1 52 1 94 Average Average Average Average household Percentage household Percentage household Percentage household Percentage expenditur reporting expenditur reporting expenditure Reporting expenditure reporting e e Food 5 960 100 0 2 474 100 0 2 881 100 0 3 518 100 0 Shelter 8 477 99 9 4 426 99 3 5 051 99 5 5 833 99 9 Pet Expenses 239 47 6 67 29 4 70 27 2 122 38 2 Clothing 2 115 99 0 427 92 0 615 96 1 840 98 2 Total Expenditure 49 068 100 0 12 311 100 0 15 036 100 0
50. can be placed in the overall estimate for Health insurance premiums than in the components Public hospital medical and drug plans and Private health insurance plans Package travel tours includes at least two components such as transportation and accommodation or accommodation with food and beverages Tobacco and smokers supplies includes cigarettes tobacco cigars matches pipes lighters ashtrays cigarette papers and tubes etc Purchases of tobacco products and smokers supplies are frequently under reported Alcoholic beverages includes those purchased from stores and restaurants Also included are expenditures on supplies and fees for self made beer wine or liquor Purchases of alcoholic beverages are frequently under reported Games of chance net equals the sum of expenditures on all types of games of chance minus the sum of winnings from all types of games of chance If total winnings are greater than total expenditures the amount to be subtracted from expenditures is set to 1 less than the expenditures and the value of the remaining winnings is moved to the variable Other money receipts Expenditures on games of chance are frequently under reported Miscellaneous expenditures includes expenses on other owned property not principal accommodation or vacation home legal services not related to dwellings financial services dues to unions and professional associations contributions and dues for social clubs and other org
51. ce repairs and replacements 3 83 664 10 45 784 819 871 681 817 687 11 01 7 64 Condominium charges 8 11 78 02 64 71 36 89 49 75 24 03 12 90 27 17 20 54 14 70 10 89 Property taxes 1 29 374 439 290 289 259 228 294 338 264 2 61 Homeowners insurance premiums 1 38 282 419 377 296 289 269 267 268 382 273 Other expenditures for owned living quarters 6 35 12 94 18 47 19 19 1258 12 85 11 51 20 93 11 51 12 05 10 89 Commissions for sale of real estate 11 02 3663 28 34 3736 3229 27 23 1858 3883 25 65 22 10 18 46 Legal fees related to the dwelling s 7 47 18 32 21 83 16 73 15 56 14 98 13 27 1851 15 21 14 10 13 51 Mortgage insurance premiums 436 1044 10 66 7 05 803 7 98 858 809 10 94 10 27 9 39 Appraisals surveying and mortgage penalties 10 29 22 87 37 26 45 81 2642 21 34 2069 43 61 33 04 21 22 19 10 Transfer taxes and land registration fees 10 23 2482 18 05 23 17 29 93 18 92 15 05 19 73 19 96 14 57 21 25 Water fuel and electricity 0 88 161 209 4187 1 60 162 182 193 154 1 77 1 67 Water and sewage 259 818 11 05 681 7 32 1642 477 308 3 71 3 70 5 32 Fuel e g oil gas 138 494 312 352 568 5 73 232 350 2 30 261 2 93 Electricity 109 201 205 196 165 1 70 256 267 2 04 190 1 98 Other accommodation 3 35 694 9 99 1042 900 767 606 720 680 672 6 91 Owned vacation home 7 49 12 45 24 08 17 43 15 98 18 02 1266 12 91 15 89 16 34 13 63 Maintenance repairs and replacements 17 65 20 00 61 68 28 02 37 70 42 34 27 04 21 61 48 67 2662 32 23 Property taxes and sewage charges 7 03 1
52. d Water and sewage The summary category Water fuel and electricity is unaffected Traveller accommodation excludes accommodation that was part of a travel tour which is included in Package travel tours Household appliances refers to the net purchase price after deducting trade in allowance and any discount This variable excludes appliances included in the purchase of a home and built in appliances Expenditures on household fixtures e g built in appliances and wall to wall carpeting can be reported under the appropriate expenditure item or if they were part of a larger job under Additions renovations etc to a home or Maintenance repairs and replacements Purchase of automobiles and trucks refers to the net purchase price including extra equipment accessories and warranties bought when the vehicle was purchased after deducting any trade in allowance or separate sales Separate sales occur when a vehicle is sold independently by the owner e g not traded in when purchasing or leasing another vehicle Health care includes direct out of pocket costs and expenditures on insurance premiums The distinction between premiums for private health insurance plans and publicly funded provincial plans is not always clear to respondents Interviewers are trained to assist but the variations in coverage and administration among the various provincial health care regimes makes this a difficult task For this reason more confidence
53. e allocated to the lower quintile and some to the higher Since there are four thresholds between quintiles the number of households in the sample for All classes in a quintile table increases by four Custom tabulations of other income percentiles and various income groups are available subject to data quality restrictions Contact Client Services at 1 888 297 7355 or income statcan ca Housing tenure refers to whether a household member owned or rented the dwelling s in which the household lived during the reference year calendar year 2002 See also Tenure under Dwelling Characteristics All owners refers to households living for the entire reference year in a dwelling owned with or without mortgage by a household member See also Percentage homeowners December 31 under Household Characteristics Owners without mortgage owned the dwelling for the entire reference year and had no mortgage on December 31 Owners with mortgage owned the dwelling for the entire reference year and had a mortgage on December 31 Renters rented a dwelling for the entire reference year as a regular tenant rent free or with reduced rent Mixed tenure includes those households that both owned and rented during the reference year Household type Households are divided into the following types Couple households are households where the married or common law spouse of the reference person was a member of the household
54. equipment data are tabulated for full year and part year households Household A person or group of persons occupying one dwelling unit is defined as a household The number of households therefore equals the number of occupied dwellings A full year household has at least one full year member a part year household is composed entirely of part year members Household member A full year member was a member of the household for the entire year A part year member was a member of the household for less than 52 weeks Expenditure and income information for part year members is collected for the portion of the year during which they were members of the household or members of another household no longer in existence Reference person The household member being interviewed chooses which household member should be listed as the reference person after hearing the following definition The household reference person is the member of the household mainly responsible for its financial maintenance e g pays the rent mortgage property taxes electricity This person can be either male or female When all members of the household share equally any member may be shown as the reference person This person must have been a member of the household on December 31 of the reference year Reimbursed expenditures are excluded from the tabulations e g work related expenses or expenditures covered by insurance Expenses attributable to a business
55. etely or partially for private use excluding those leased Classification Categories for Standard Tables Canada In 1998 1999 and every second year thereafter starting with 2001 statistics for Canada include the territories For the other years Canada level statistics include the 10 provinces only Province Territory refers to the major political divisions of Canada Data for territories are available for 1997 coverage insufficient for inclusion in Canada level statistics 1998 1999 and every second year thereafter starting with 2001 Metropolitan Areas The overall concept for delineating metropolitan areas is one of a large urban area together with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of social and economic integration with this urban area See the 1996 Census Dictionary p 181 Catalogue no 92 351 XPE For the Survey of Household Spending data are tabulated based on the 1996 census metropolitan area CMA boundaries In the Survey of Household Spending only data for the Ottawa Ontario part of the Ottawa Gatineau CMA are tabulated for the metropolitan area The data for the Gatineau Quebec part are included in the data tabulated for the province of Quebec and Canada 10 provinces Also the municipality of Selkirk is included in the Survey of Household Spending metropolitan area of Winnipeg whereas it is not included in the CMA of Winnipeg The metropolitan areas for which the data are tabulated are St J
56. ge expenditure on food of households in next income group x average expenditure on food of households in lowest income group of households in next income group of households in next income group Example 463 590 x 2 474 882 370 x 2 881 797 740 x 3 518 3 030 463 590 882 370 797 740 estimated number 7 How to calculate total expenditure on an item for all households ora sub group of households Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section To calculate how much was spent on average on an item for all households or households in a particular sub group e g households in the lowest income group multiply average expenditure per household for an item by the estimated number of households at the top of the column For example to find how much was spent on food by all households in the lowest income group Average expenditure per lowest income household for food x estimated number of households Example 2 474 x 463 590 1 146 921 660 Note that this aggregate is based on a sample that excludes part year households and other people ineligible for the survey Statistics Canada 31 62F0026M 2003002 8 How to calculate percentage of total expenditure for all households market share Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section Expenditure share or market share is the percentage of the total expenditure for an item that can be attributed to a particular su
57. ges cannot be added together to form sub totals Average expenditure per household reporting is calculated for those households that reported the expenditure i e without zero values Statistics Canada 25 62F0026M 2003002 Percentage of total expenditure is calculated by expressing the average expenditure per household as a percentage of total expenditure This statistic is also known as budget share Statistics Canada 26 62F0026M 2003002 The Relationship between Expenditure Estimates from the SHS and the System of National Accounts Users should note some important differences between estimates of total current consumption from the Survey of Household Spending SHS and personal expenditure on consumer goods and services from the System of National Accounts SNA Data from the SHS are an important but by no means the only source of data used by the SNA in the compilation of their accounts Current expenditure estimates for both the SHS and the SNA cover all personal outlays on goods and services by Canadian residents at home and abroad In addition personal expenditure on consumer goods and services from the SNA includes the operating expenditure of associations of individuals which include private non profit organizations such as charitable institutions labour unions private pension funds mutual funds mutual insurance companies and similar non commercial groups serving households These organizations are reg
58. hold income was used for most variables dwelling type household size and province were also frequently used Tabulation for the 2002 Survey of Household Spending was accomplished using a A detailed description of the Labour Force Survey sampling frame can be found in Methodology of the Canadian Labour Force Survey Statistics Canada Catalogue no 71 526 XPB Statistics Canada 7 62F0026M 2003002 PC client server based system This system provides tools database querying searching and viewing capabilities for spotting systematic errors Weighting The estimation of population characteristics from a sample survey is based on the premise that each sampled unit represents a certain number of units in the population A basic survey weight was attached to each record in the sample to reflect this representation These basic weights were adjusted for non response for selected metropolitan areas additional geographical areas and for high income strata The additional geographical areas comprise the remaining metropolitan areas and urban and rural areas based on census definitions but do not necessarily correspond exactly For definitions of these terms refer to the 1996 Census Dictionary Catalogue no 92 351 XPE To increase the reliability of the estimates weights were adjusted to ensure that estimates based on relevant characteristics of the population would respect population totals from sources other than the survey For the 10
59. in 2002 2 Rejected at the editing stage 3 Usable eligible 100 Processing Error Processing errors may occur in any of the data processing stages for example during data entry editing weighting and tabulation See Data Processing and Quality Control above for a description of the steps taken to reduce processing error The Effect of Large Values For any sample estimates can be affected by the presence or absence of extreme values from the population These extreme values are most likely to arise from positively skewed populations The nature of the subject matter of the SHS lends itself to such extreme values Estimates of totals averages and standard errors may be greatly influenced by the presence or absence of these extremes Statistics Canada 12 62F0026M 2003002 Comparability over Time Conducted since 1997 the Survey of Household Spending integrates most of the content found in the Family Expenditure Survey and the Household Facilities and Equipment Survey Many variables from these two surveys are comparable to those in the Survey of Household Spending However some differences related to the methodology to data quality and to definitions must be considered before making comparisons For more information refer to Note to Former Users of Data from the Family Expenditure Survey Catalogue no 62FOO26MIE2000002 and Note to Former Users of Data from the Household Facilities and Equipment Survey Catalogue no 6
60. ing e g piped gas electricity or other cooking fuels Other includes oil or other liquid fuel bottled gas and wood Household Equipment at December 31 In general appliances and equipment are included if they are in working order or will soon be repaired and are located within the dwelling occupied on December 31 They must be owned or leased for the exclusive use of the household Washing machine Washing machines located outside the dwelling and shared with other households are excluded Statistics Canada 21 62F0026M 2003002 Clothes dryer Dryers may be electric or gas Clothes dryers located outside the dwelling and shared with other households are excluded Dishwasher Dishwashers may be built in or portable Freezer A freezer is an individual piece of equipment and not part of a refrigeration unit such as the freezer in a refrigerator Air conditioner A central air conditioner is designed to cool the air in the entire building and may be located either inside or outside the dwelling unit for example in the basement of an apartment block A window type air conditioner is installed in a window or through a wall to cool the air in a room Telephone includes business use Telephones used for business are included if the business is conducted in the dwelling Cordless phones are included Cellular telephones are excluded Cellular telephone Cordless phones are excluded Compact disc player A compac
61. lculate a CV for a sub population at the Canada level e g lone parent households the CV for Canada should be used Statistics Canada 10 62F0026M 2003002 Non Sampling Error Non sampling errors occur because certain factors make it difficult to obtain accurate responses or responses that retain their accuracy throughout processing Unlike sampling error non sampling error is not readily quantified Four sources of non sampling error can be identified coverage error response error non response error and processing error Coverage Error Coverage error results from inadequate representation of the intended population This error may occur during sample design or selection or during data collection and processing Response Error Response error may be due to many factors including faulty design of the questionnaire interviewers or respondents misinterpretation of questions or respondents faulty reporting In the Survey of Household Spending the difference between receipts and disbursements is calculated as a check on respondents recall This important quality control tool involves the balancing of receipts income and other money received by the household and disbursements total expenditure plus the variable Money flows assets loans and other debts for each questionnaire If the difference is greater than 10 of the larger of receipts or disbursements respondents are contacted again for additional information
62. lected about expenditures for consumer goods and services changes in assets mortgages and other loans and annual income This information was collected for the calendar year 2002 the survey reference year Information was also collected about dwelling characteristics e g type and age of heating equipment and household equipment e g appliances communications equipment and vehicles This type of information was collected as of December 31 of the reference year Because the Survey of Household Spending is designed principally to provide detailed information on non food expenditures only an overall estimate of food expenditure is recorded Detailed information on food expenditure is provided by In order to reduce response burden for northern households the SHS is conducted in the north only every second year starting in 2001 Statistics Canada 6 62F0026M 2003002 the Food Expenditure Survey which is conducted every four to six years It was last conducted in 2001 In February 2003 the results were published in Food Expenditure in Canada 2001 Catalogue no 62 554 XIE The Sample The sample size for the 2002 Survey of Household Spending was 20 861 eligible households This sample was a stratified multi stage sample selected from the Labour Force Survey LFS sampling frame Sample selection comprised two main steps the selection of clusters small geographic areas from the LFS frame and the selection of dwellings
63. me from self employment receipts from military pay and allowances gross receipts from roomers and boarders not related to the reference person net rentals interest Statistics Canada 15 62F0026M 2003002 and dividends all pensions workers compensation and employment insurance benefits social assistance and income supplements Child Tax Benefits Goods and Services Tax Credits provincial tax credits and miscellaneous regular income receipts Other money receipts refers to other receipts not included in income such as cash gifts inheritance or life insurance settlements Winnings from games of chance are also included if they exceed the amount spent on games of chance Money flows assets loans and other debts includes net changes during the reference year calendar year 2002 in bank balances money on hand money owed to the household money owed by the household purchase and sale of stocks and bonds personal property and real estate expenditures on home additions renovations and new installations and contributions to and withdrawals from registered retirement savings plans The Family Expenditure Survey last conducted in 1996 had a similar variable called Average net change in assets and liabilities For a complete description of the differences between the two variables see Note to Former Users of Data from the Family Expenditure Survey 62FOO26MIE2000002 available free on the Statistics Canada website www statcan c
64. ng in 2001 This guide includes definitions of survey terms and variables and descriptions of survey methodology data quality and the content of standard data tables There is also a section describing the various statistics that can be created using expenditure data e g budget share market share and aggregate spending The Survey of Household Spending first conducted for the 1997 reference year includes most of the content from the former Family Expenditure Survey and the Household Facilities and Equipment Survey For more information about the transition from these surveys to the Survey of Household Spending please contact Client Services 1 888 297 7355 or 613 951 7355 income statcan ca Income Statistics Division This guide is intended to accompany the standard data tables The content of these tables is found in the section Products from the Survey of Household Spending Custom tabulations including tabulations of revised data from previous survey years are also available on a cost recovery basis subject to data quality and confidentiality constraints For more information about survey results and related products and services contact Client Services 613 951 7355 1 888 297 7355 fax 613 951 3012 income statcan ca Income Statistics Division Statistics Canada 5 62F0026M 2003002 Survey Methodology The Survey Universe The 2002 Survey of Household Spending was carried out in private households in C
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66. o compensate for non responding households For the 2002 Survey of Household Spending the overall response rate was 70 5 See Figure 1 for provincial response rates Statistics Canada 11 62F0026M 2003002 In most cases partial non response occurs when the respondent does not understand or misinterprets a question refuses to answer a question or is unable to recall the requested information Imputing missing values compensates for this partial non response The importance of the non response error is unknown but in general this error is significant when a group of people with particular characteristics in common refuse to cooperate and where those characteristics are important determinants of survey results Figure 1 Response Rates Canada and Provinces 2002 Eligible Non Refusals Un Usables Response households contacts usables rate 1 2 3 Newfoundland and Labrador 1 681 130 224 70 1 257 74 8 Prince Edward Island 799 36 115 11 637 79 7 Nova Scotia 2 063 148 429 119 1 367 66 3 New Brunswick 1 766 115 349 63 1 239 70 2 Quebec 2 760 193 571 7 1 989 72 1 Ontario 3 159 307 738 128 1 986 62 9 Manitoba 1 858 95 296 24 1 443 77 7 Saskatchewan 1 963 105 338 19 1 501 76 5 Alberta 2 105 144 417 52 1 492 70 9 British Columbia 2 707 219 514 181 1 793 66 2 Canada 20 861 1 492 3 991 674 14 704 70 5 1 Part year households are included in the calculation of response rates There were 475 part year households
67. of Variation for Household Expenditures Column headings for Canada All owners Owners without mortgage Owners with mortgage Renters Mixed tenure Column headings for each type of tenure Household characteristics Average expenditure per household Percentage reporting 62F0034 Detailed Average Household Expenditure by Household Type Canada Variables Detailed spending variables as per Table 1 Coefficients of Variation for Household Expenditures Column headings for Canada All households Lone parent households One person households Total Total Female headed Person aged 65 and over Other households Couple households Total Total All persons related Both aged 65 and over At least one person unrelated Without additional persons Without children With children With additional persons Column headings for each type of household Household characteristics Average expenditure per household Percentage reporting Statistics Canada 34 62F0026M 2003002 62F0035 Detailed Average Household Expenditure by Size of Area of Residence Canada Variables Detailed spending variables as per Table 1 Coefficients of Variation for Household Expenditures Column headings for Canada All classes All rural All urban Urban under 30 000 Urban 30 000 99 999 Urban 100 000 249 999 Urban 250 000 499 999 Urban 500 000 999 999 Urban 1 000 000 and over Column headings for each size of area Household characteristics
68. ohn s Charlottetown Summerside Halifax Saint John Quebec Montreal Ottawa Toronto Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Calgary Edmonton Vancouver Victoria Whitehorse and Yellowknife Income Readers requiring official income statistics are directed to the publication Income in Canada Catalogue no 75 202 In the SHS income quintiles are used as Classifiers in the data tables In addition Average household income before tax is a descriptive household characteristic found at the beginning of each expenditure table see definition above under Household Characteristics Household income quintiles are income groupings obtained by ranking households in ascending order of total household income and partitioning the households into five groups such that the estimated number of households in each group is the same In a quintile table the number of households in the sample for All classes is four households higher than the actual number of households in the sample This is because the sampled household which falls on the threshold between two quintiles 2 Traditionally the Survey of Consumer Finances SCF has been the source of Statistics Canada s annual income estimates Starting with data for the 1998 reference year the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics SLID became the major source of annual cross sectional income estimates Statistics Canada 23 62F0026M 2003002 represents a number of households some of which would b
69. othing might be suppressed but this amount forms part of the total expenditure estimate for clothing Approximation of Coefficient of Variation It is possible to approximate the CV of estimates not represented in Tables 1 and 2 using a relationship between the CV and the number of households that reported spending on an item or having a given dwelling characteristic Previous studies have shown that the CV of the estimate of an item tends to decrease in proportion to the square root of the number of households having a given dwelling characteristic As an example according to Table 1 the estimated CV for the average household expenditure on rented living quarters for all households in Ontario is 4 36 To estimate the CV for the average household expenditure on rented living quarters in Toronto use the following equation Note that this method provides only an approximation of the CV CV for average expenditures on rented living quarters by households in Toronto ae eae CV for all hhids x aes epote n ie of hhids reporting in Toronto 4 36 x 674 288 4 36 x 1 53 6 67 where of hhids reporting expenditure on rented living quarters in Ontario Ontario sample x percentage reporting 100 1 937 x 34 8 100 674 and where of hhlids reporting expenditure on rented living quarters in Toronto Toronto sample x percentage reporting Toronto 100 711 x 40 5 100 288 Note that where it is necessary to ca
70. out mortgage indicates that the dwelling is owned by a household member and that there is no mortgage as of December 31 Rented indicates that the dwelling is rented by the household for the entire reference year or occupied rent free as of December 31 Year of move refers to the year the household moved into the dwelling If the dwelling was occupied by previous generations the first year of residence for the household member who has occupied the dwelling the longest is recorded Period of construction for dwelling occupied on December 31 gives the year or period in which the original building was constructed Number of rooms for dwelling occupied on December 31 includes the kitchen bedrooms and finished rooms in the attic or basement It excludes bathrooms halls vestibules and rooms used solely for business purposes Number of bathrooms for dwelling occupied on December 31 indicates the number of rooms in the dwelling with an installed bathtub and or shower Statistics Canada 20 62F0026M 2003002 Principal heating equipment for dwelling occupied on December 31 indicates the type of heating equipment chiefly used to heat the dwelling in winter Steam or hot water furnaces distribute central heating through radiators located throughout the house and connected by pressure pipes Forced hot air furnaces distribute central heating by a motor driven fan through vents located throughout the dwelling This is the mos
71. ow removal tools and equipment 3 50 760 1229 914 778 963 635 672 670 741 6 30 Lamps and lampshades 472 10 28 11 87 9 90 1038 10 19 816 10 19 10 27 10 26 10 09 Non electric kitchen and cooking equipment 2 94 689 10 43 621 692 517 614 718 656 7 51 5 69 Tableware flatware and knives 489 10 81 1696 1348 1238 11 19 862 1291 1406 1033 7 84 Non electric cleaning equipment 2 06 371 587 499 759 401 385 497 418 498 5 04 Luggage 426 9 76 1436 1089 1219 10 50 787 10 28 10 77 840 9 07 Home security equipment 11 74 12 99 27 73 2264 13 36 14 73 22 90 2451 12 96 19 15 22 00 Other household equipment parts and accessories 3 41 666 947 675 699 783 633 731 691 721 8 28 Maintenance and repairs of furniture and equipment 413 15 98 12 52 1065 1062 895 762 870 592 804 6 58 Furniture carpeting and household textiles 6 42 2339 16 65 1623 1969 1462 11 54 12 27 820 10 29 7 85 Major household appliances 450 15 34 17 67 13 23 1183 878 805 1250 11 62 12 76 11 90 Other maintenance and repairs of furniture and equipment 9 07 32 96 32 22 28 55 1948 2215 1660 17 34 17 31 1855 16 81 Services related to furnishings and equipment 441 23 70 22 00 12 96 1495 12 79 626 13 24 991 1346 10 14 Rental of heating equipment 5 64 26 51 48 14 17 19 23 33 35 24 598 6883 1448 61 61 38 40 Other services related to furnishings and equipment 5 96 28 91 22 59 16 38 20 61 12 01 11 47 13 36 11 68 13 07 10 69 Clothing 1 14 247 358 242 255 199 220 254 197 281 2 94 Women s and Girls wear 4 years and over
72. parking 455 20 14 30 87 1242 1681 1034 780 858 928 964 8 21 At dwelling not included in rent 11 54 99 70 91 42 29 05 53 26 23 97 19 21 2634 36 97 30 75 25 18 Parking away from home 487 1988 32 06 1323 1734 11 66 829 912 958 10 01 8 453 Driving lessons 10 71 2448 21 80 2138 2148 20 35 17 73 31 97 46 09 1552 18 40 Drivers licences and tests 219 653 671 758 548 284 655 221 472 7 71 8 10 Private and public vehicle insurance premiums 119 230 324 308 200 200 212 248 616 241 3 34 Registration fees and licences including insurance if part of registration 184 181 383 431 314 1 73 208 815 228 252 5 07 Other automobile and truck operation services 973 1915 791 898 846 1164 866 1142 648 796 39 84 Public transportation 258 692 13 71 724 807 593 449 565 849 737 448 City or commuter bus subway street car and commuter train 3 29 19 57 5283 1045 1943 565 525 923 886 7 19 7 01 Taxi 465 12 36 1827 1019 12 75 10 04 865 765 12 29 11 57 13 65 Airplane 4 11 10 02 1548 1202 1199 1194 737 756 12 05 9 78 6 54 Train 963 3265 41 83 3434 33 06 19 56 1368 25 04 3281 41 12 21 89 Highway bus 6 33 16 11 31 56 35 39 15 71 15 23 1133 14 78 12 07 12 59 11 95 Other passenger transportation 5 02 11 29 24 74 11 23 1789 1283 989 1494 15 11 1461 8 90 Household moving storage and delivery services 9 33 29 56 37 35 25 02 22 36 16 70 15 25 21 29 19 36 3682 17 08 Health care 154 274 387 322 289 211 404 328 439 269 263 Direct costs to household 2 10 362 436 449 398 285 483 354 336 380 3 2
73. ponding percentage reporting and then multiply by 100 For example to find the average expenditure on pets by households that actually had pet expenses Average household expenditure on pet expenses x 100 Percentage reporting Example 239 x 100 502 47 6 Statistics Canada 29 62F0026M 2003002 3 How to calculate average expenditure per person Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section To calculate the average expenditure per person on an item divide the average expenditure per household for that item by the household size found near the top of the column For example to find the average expenditure per person for food by those households in the lowest income group Average expenditure per household for food Household size Example 2 474 1 918 1 29 When comparing estimates of per person expenditure note that family composition number of children and adults is also a factor in many expenditure patterns 4 How to calculate percentage of total average expenditure per household budget share Refer to Example Data table at the end of this section To calculate the percentage of total average household expenditure represented by an item budget share divide the average expenditure per household for an item by total expenditure for all items and multiply by 100 For example to find the percentage of total expenditures represented by food purchases for households in the lowest income group
74. r Canada All owners Owners without mortgage Owners with mortgage Renters Mixed tenure Column headings for each type of tenure Household characteristics Dwelling characteristics Estimated number of households Percentage reporting Statistics Canada 36 62F0026M 2003002 62F0044 Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment by Household Type Canada Variables Detailed dwelling and equipment variables as per Table 2 Coefficients of Variation for Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment Column headings for Canada All households Lone parent households One person households Total Total Female headed Person aged 65 and over Other households Couple households Total Total All persons related Both aged 65 and over At least one person unrelated Without additional persons Without children With children With additional persons Column headings for each type of household Household characteristics Dwelling characteristics Estimated number of households Percentage reporting 62F0045 Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment by Size of Area of Residence Canada Variables Detailed dwelling and equipment variables as per Table 2 Coefficients of Variation for Dwelling Characteristics and Household Equipment Column headings for Canada All classes All rural All urban Urban under 30 000 Urban 30 000 99 999 Urban 100 000 249 999 Urban 250 000 499 999 Urban 500 000 999 999 Urban 1 0
75. rtainment equipment and other services 23 73 61 94 49 31 41 01 7347 44 77 3466 43 50 43 71 49 90 61 56 Maintenance and repair of home entertainment equipment 6 00 19 16 35 66 15 22 2432 12 39 12 41 17 25 13 65 12 76 14 04 Recreation services 175 392 398 348 342 391 315 338 3 00 455 343 Entertainment 104 195 303 202 182 1 76 214 237 214 219 2 11 Movie theatres 228 667 875 502 529 431 440 498 639 427 5 13 Statistics Canada 50 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Live sports events 6 24 1435 14 26 1352 13 16 9 26 1259 7 72 10 23 1284 9 09 Live performing arts 3 03 787 1052 795 1084 480 553 698 587 652 646 Admission to museums and other activities 3 31 11 73 1453 668 978 694 556 956 7 99 7 93 10 03 Rental of cablevision and satellite services 0 98 201 240 228 192 218 196 254 196 206 2 07 Rental of cablevision services 143 310 536 327 318 313 288 314 324 319 247 Rental of satellite services 3 21 632 1058 674 58 676 699 763 502 720 8 77 Use of recreation facilities 277 947 10 31 747 654 690 467 588 505 806 5 10 Membership and single usage fees for sports and recreation facilities 2 97 10 04 1062 833 687 579 521 716 579 902 5 60 Membership fees and dues for sports and recreation facilities 3 29 11 06 1185 875 795 671 557 661 682 10 72 693 Single use fees for sports and recreational facilities 5 73 20 24 15 12 19 07 1360 11 43 10 74 1636 992 1052 8 00 Video pinball and carnival games 860 1
76. s handicraft and hobbycraft kits and materials 6 03 4369 21 28 951 11 04 1131 874 12 05 11 19 2550 8 37 Computer equipment and supplies 282 927 13 81 752 820 694 509 676 650 637 5 27 Computer hardware 347 11 24 1614 961 990 916 612 794 822 796 6 55 New 3 61 12 06 17 50 10 03 1052 968 634 829 857 846 6 93 Used 11 07 2765 35 27 2366 2244 27 34 1828 23 54 29 59 19 34 20 80 Computer software 5 72 20 55 2267 12 16 1545 13 80 10 94 1434 11 56 11 16 875 Computer supplies and other equipment 320 672 909 557 625 733 604 568 563 670 5 05 Photographic goods and services 2 49 595 740 717 543 546 489 523 541 427 439 Cameras and accessories 490 12 25 17 83 1462 1167 1140 937 1073 11 89 932 8 28 Films and processing 232 425 7 57 646 459 437 476 471 388 401 3 53 Photographers and other photographic services 494 1467 12 71 1044 1445 17 31 871 10 79 1258 7 36 10 83 Musical instruments parts and accessories 948 2212 21 56 1641 23 99 1831 1985 1650 19 84 17 07 20 55 Collectors items e g stamps coins 10 25 46 75 29 98 36 25 2068 2433 1982 35 54 23 54 3285 20 21 Camping picnic equipment and accessories excluding BBQ s 434 1052 17 70 883 871 841 951 1099 1080 786 841 Supplies and parts for recreational equipment 5 52 10 74 2453 20 11 1188 733 1087 11 97 14 52 17 02 11 20 Statistics Canada 49 62F0026M 2003002 Canada N L P E I N S N B Que Ont Man Sask Alta B C Rental maintenance and repairs of equipment 9 37 32 11 39 56 33 22 26
77. s used to indicate the degree of uncertainty associated with an estimate For example if the estimate of the number of households having a given dwelling characteristic is 10 000 households and the corresponding CV is 5 then the true value is between 9 500 and 10 500 households 68 of the time and between 9 000 and 11 000 households 95 of the time Standard errors for the 2002 Survey of Household Spending were estimated using the jackknife technique which leads to a slight over estimation and is thus conservative For more information refer to the Statistics Canada publication Methodology of the Canadian Labour Force Survey Catalogue no 71 526XPB Coefficients of variation are presented in Tables 1 and 2 Data Suppression For reliability reasons estimates with CVs greater than 33 should be suppressed Since CVs are not calculated for all estimates data suppression for the Survey of Household Spending has been based on a relationship between the CV and the number of households reporting expenditure on an item Analysis of past survey results indicates that CVs usually reach this level when the number of households Statistics Canada 9 62F0026M 2003002 reporting an item drops to about 30 Therefore data have been suppressed for spending on items reported by fewer than 30 households However data for suppressed items do contribute to summary level variables For example the expenditure for a particular category of cl
78. ses for rented and leased recreational vehicles 14 09 47 19 98 81 30 54 46 76 35 03 25 76 29 27 43 44 30 80 27 49 Gasoline and other fuels 7 47 945 18 13 13 81 11 89 20 59 14 22 11 59 9 55 1661 17 36 Supplies and parts 781 1413 28 81 1699 1469 1424 1831 18 21 15 39 21 90 15 42 Maintenance and repair jobs 8 99 1965 32 71 20 16 19 68 19 22 17 84 32 91 16 86 16 73 18 51 Insurance premiums 5 73 20 94 32 08 14 55 10 00 10 05 11 05 1038 11 17 12 04 13 19 Registration fees and licences 6 04 25 91 1759 12 11 817 9 97 1669 15 87 1445 10 79 17 74 Other expenses for operation of recreational vehicles 13 22 32 41 58 57 2884 21 56 23 46 2232 27 72 32 98 28 00 23 40 Home entertainment equipment and services 427 480 743 483 498 383 977 521 465 515 459 Equipment 5 17 593 9 11 601 618 4 71 1147 597 565 597 5 79 Audio e g radio CD players speakers 15 93 9 76 14 53 1213 11 12 11 55 31 85 1439 12 11 1484 14 79 Pre recorded audio and video cassette tapes compact discs and DVD s 2 59 658 9 51 800 761 475 522 960 669 533 5 79 Blank audio and video tapes 3 36 8 02 19 56 986 955 689 660 1231 741 869 6 89 Televisions VCRs camcorders and other television video component 3 90 1047 12 56 850 953 742 769 7 01 844 816 7 59 Other home entertainment equipment 5 77 13 09 20 09 14 23 15 78 12 64 10 89 10 93 13 70 11 73 11 50 Services 2 07 712 744 531 586 406 421 505 550 453 5 27 Rental of videotapes and DVD s 2 15 7 18 7 77 560 522 439 436 527 563 4 71 4 92 Rental of home ente
79. t common central heating system Furnaces with a pump are included in this category Other hot air furnaces distribute central heating by convection natural flow of hot air through vents located throughout the house Gravity furnaces are included in this category Heating stoves are localized heating units with no central distribution system to other parts of the house e g oil space heater gas space heater wood stoves Electric heating includes permanently installed baseboard electric heating and other types such as floor or ceiling heating wires in all or most rooms Other heating includes cookstoves and any other type of heating equipment not listed above Age of principal heating equipment installed for dwelling occupied on December 31 indicates how long ago the principal heating equipment was installed Principal heating fuel for dwelling occupied on December 31 refers to the winter fuel used in the principal heating equipment is given here e g oil or other liquid fuel piped or bottled gas electricity wood or other fuels Principal heating fuel for hot water for dwelling occupied on December 31 indicates the type of fuel used for the running hot water supply e g oil or other liquid fuel piped gas electricity or other fuels such as bottled gas or wood Principal cooking fuel for dwelling occupied on December 31 indicates the main fuel for the range or stove on which the household does most of the cook
80. t disc player may be a separate unit part of a component or built in as in a receiver cassette recorder compact disc combination unit Video cassette recorder Video cassette recorders VCRs are units which play videocassettes when attached to a television or monitor Home computer Computers used exclusively for business purposes are not included Internet use from home indicates whether the household accesses the Internet via a computer in the house It includes cases where a home computer is used to link to a business computer located outside the dwelling for access to the Internet Excluded are cases where the Internet is accessed directly through a computer located outside the dwelling e g work Type of Internet connection Other type of connection includes telephone line connected to a television and wireless e g cellular telephone personal digital applicance Owned vehicles gives the number of vehicles car van mini van truck sport utility vehicle owned by members of the household on December 31 completely or partially for private use excluding those leased Owned automobiles gives the number of automobiles owned by members of the household on December 31 completely or partially for private use excluding those leased Statistics Canada 22 62F0026M 2003002 Owned vans or trucks gives the number of vans minivans trucks and sport utility vehicles owned by members of the household on December 31 compl
81. ternet use from home 0 99 368 551 298 330 245 182 319 234 238 1 72 Regular telephone connection to a computer 2 25 611 891 604 471 457 408 742 627 639 4 75 High speed telephone connection to a computer 3 15 1354 1148 847 872 642 682 652 612 613 6 65 Cable connection to a computer 2 96 9 31 2190 9 15 2684 816 596 884 794 623 4 33 Other type of connection 23 80 101 13 100 26 0 00 100 96 52 79 43 19 71 17 37 29 68 10 40 54 Colour televisions 0 11 0 15 053 0 21 0 28 0 17 0 19 0 26 030 040 0 36 1 145 476 576 418 356 277 297 348 286 4 08 2 75 2 161 410 458 430 380 330 337 383 342 365 3 30 3 or more 2 02 375 703 440 463 397 405 479 446 545 4 68 With a vehicle owned or leased 0 53 1 38 135 129 110 1 11 112 122 1 01 0 92 1 06 Owned vehicles automobiles trucks and vans 0 61 188 165 139 1 31 140 1 23 141 113 1143 1 15 1 1 39 340 427 307 373 270 285 366 308 3 70 2 88 2 or more 146 463 422 3 09 339 400 291 338 251 300 2 62 Owned automobiles 0 93 273 273 193 207 199 188 254 215 222 1 71 1 131 367 3 77 313 315 262 280 385 289 317 2 37 2 or more 2 69 8 92 820 676 692 618 492 7 07 629 678 5 95 Owned vans and trucks 1 53 3 70 500 372 351 432 325 339 261 282 2 83 1 178 408 620 449 449 448 375 405 378 367 3 69 2 or more 476 1482 1964 1465 10 44 1483 1064 869 854 923 8 14 Leased vehicles automobiles trucks and vans 3 64 888 12 74 10 34 9 02 600 7 04 1347 12 77 10 56 10 52 1 3 85 9 54 1418 11 04 10 06 655 741 13 34 13 07 11 27 10 87 2 or more 13 09 33 61 50 66 42
82. the number of households used for data estimation which includes the number of households sampled minus vacant dwellings ineligible households households that interviewers were unable to contact households that refused to be interviewed and households whose questionnaires did not pass editing procedures For expenditure data tables only full year households are included For tables presenting dwelling characteristics and household equipment both full year and part year households are included See Household under General Concepts Estimated number of households is the estimated weighted number of private households on December 31 of the reference year For expenditure data tables the estimate is based on full year households only For tables presenting dwelling characteristics and household equipment both full year and part year households are included in the estimate See Household under General Concepts Average household size is the average number of people in a household In this context household size is defined as the number of year equivalent persons The number of year equivalent persons is calculated by dividing the number of weeks that members were part of the household by 52 In this way part year members are counted as fractions of a year equivalent person Average household income before tax includes total household income received in calendar year 2002 including gross income from wages and salaries net inco
83. ts loans and other debts Gifts of money and contributions includes money and support payments given to persons outside the household or to charity This does not include money spent on gifts to persons outside the household as was the case in the Family Expenditure Survey Alimony This variable is available starting in 1998 Before 1998 expenditures on alimony were included under Gifts of money and other support payments to persons living inside Canada or Gifts of money and other support payments to persons living outside Canada Dwelling Characteristics Dwelling characteristics are collected as of December 31 Type of dwelling describes the type of dwelling in which the household resided on December 31 A dwelling is a structurally separate set of living premises with a private entrance from outside the building or from a common hall or stairway A single detached dwelling contains only one dwelling unit and is completely separated by open space on all sides from any other structure except its own garage or shed A single attached dwelling is a double or semi detached unit side by side or a row or terrace unit The classification apartment includes duplexes two dwellings situated one above the other triplexes quadruplexes or apartment buildings Statistics Canada 19 62F0026M 2003002 Other dwellings include mobile homes motor homes tents railroad cars or houseboats which are used as permanent residences and are
84. utions for which no explicit charges are recorded e g the portion of bank interest charges that represent administration costs In the SHS shelter expenditures for homeowners include items such as property taxes homeowners insurance regular mortgage payments utilities and spending on maintenance and repairs In the National Accounts personal spending on shelter for homeowners is determined by imputing a rental value for their dwellings Statistics Canada 27 62F0026M 2003002 Total current consumption in the SHS and total personal expenditure in the National Accounts cover mainly the same categories of goods and services However total current consumption in the SHS includes some items that are classified as transfer payments and excluded from total personal expenditure in the National Accounts such as vehicle licence fees public medical insurance premiums and the transfer portion of interest on consumer debt The SHS because it is a survey is able to provide detailed annual expenditure data not only at the national and provincial territorial level but also for various metropolitan areas income groups and types of households The SNA provides annual and quarterly data at the national level and annual data at the provincial territorial level This is because the necessary data integration and imputation based on multiple data sources can only be performed at the aggregate level Statistics Canada 28 62F0026M 2003002
85. y Introduction Background Experimental Design Analysis Respondent Relations Conclusions Response Rate Definitions Explanation of Statistical Tests Control Split Data Regional Breakdown 62F0026MIE2001001 1998 1999 2000 and 2001 Survey of 62F0026MIE2001002 Household Spending Data Quality 62F0026MIE2002001 Indicators 62F0026MIE2003001 Product Description This report describes the quality indicators produced for the 1998 1999 2000 and 2001 surveys of household spending It covers the usual quality indicators that help users interpret data such as coefficients of variation nonresponse rates imputation rates and the impact of imputed data on the estimates Added to these are various less often used indicators such as slippage rates and measures of the representativity of the sample for particular characteristics that are useful for evaluating the survey methodology Table of Contents Highlights Introduction Sampling Errors Nonresponse Coverage Errors Response Errors Processing Errors Statistics Canada 40 62F0026M 2003002 62F0026MIE2001003 Methodology of the Survey of Household Spending Production Description This document provides a detailed description of the methodology of the Survey of Household Spending sample design data collection and processing production of estimates and other products and dissemination rules Table of Contents Introduction Target Population Sample Design Data Collection

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