Box 6-2 Per-Mile Vehicle Operating Expenses

The American Automobile Association (AAA) publishes per-mile vehicle operating cost estimates in Your Driving Costs. To calculate the costs, AAA estimates annual costs for small, medium, and large sedans using data from five top-selling current-year vehicles for each group. AAA’s...

Table 6-1 Average Individual Household Expenditures by Income Quintile, 2014

Figure 6-6 Average Individual Household Transportation Expenditures 2014

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Transportation Expenditures (household average $9,073)

Figure 6-5 Average Individual Household Expenditures (four largest categories), 2000 to 2014

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Box 6-1 Personal Consumption Expenditures and the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Personal Consumption Expenditures includes expenditures made on behalf of households such as healthcare premiums paid by businesses and housing assistance from non-profits and the government. As a result, healthcare and housing expenditures are larger and account for a larger share of total...

Figure 6-4 Average Individual Household Expenditures (major categories), 2014

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Figure 6-3 Total National Household Transportation Expenditures 2014

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Transportation expenditures ($1.23 trillion)

Figure 6-2 Total National Household Expenditures (four largest categories), 2000 to 2014 (trillions)

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Figure 6-1 Total National Household Expenditures (major categories), 2014

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