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Figure 4-4 Average Household Expenditures by Spending Category: 2014

Thursday, September 8, 2016

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Figure 4-4 Average Household Expenditures by Spending Category: 2014

1 Includes alcoholic beverages, entertainment, personal care products and services, reading, education, tobacco products and smoking, miscellaneous, cash contributions and others.

2 Values for public transportation are subject to very large standard errors due to the small sample size associated with some categories.

NOTE: Totals may not sum due to rounding. Average includes households without vehicles and households that may have more than one vehicle.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, Consumer Expenditures in 2014, available at http://www.bls.gov/cex/ and from personal communication/public microdata sets as of February 2016.