Quarterly Demographic Estimates (QDE)

Household final consumption expenditure per capita of economy, value

Household final consumption expenditure per capita refers to the amount of expenditure on consumption goods and services in the economic territory of a country or region during a given period divided by the population of that country or region. Household final consumption expenditure consists of the expenditure, including expenditure whose value must be estimated indirectly, incurred by resident households on individual consumption goods and services, including those sold at prices that are not economically significant and including consumption goods and services acquired abroad.

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:

• Canadian chained dollar
• Canadian dollar at current prices