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

Comparative real consumption of economy, ratio

Comparative real consumption refers to an index of real expenditure per capita in the United States relative to those in Canada for categories of the gross domestic income (GDI). The ratio is calculated as per capita consumption in the US, expenditures in current dollars, converted to Canadian dollars by dividing them by the Fisher Purchasing Power Parities, expressed as a ratio of Canadian consumption expenditures per capita.

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 measurements:

• Decimal number
  Data tables

  • Purchasing power parities between Canada and the United States based on the System of National Accounts Classification (SNA) in terms of expenditures Table: 380-0057
  • Purchasing power parities between Canada and the United States, International Comparison Project (ICP) Classification, consumption-based Table: 380-0058