National Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Income and by Expenditure Accounts

Actual final consumption of economy, category

Actual final consumption refers to the measure of the amount of consumption goods and services acquired.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• International Comparison Project of Final Expenditure on GDP
  Data tables

  • Purchasing power parities between Canada and the United States, International Comparison Project (ICP) Classification, consumption-based Table: 380-0058
• International Comparison Project of Final Expenditure on GDP, Highly Aggregated Variant
  Data tables

  • Purchasing power parities between Canada and the United States, International Comparison Project (ICP) Classification, consumption-based Table: 380-0058