Home buying intentions are strongest in Calgary and Halifax, where 10 per
cent of households reported they are ready to buy a home.
Not exact matches
The U.K.'s Office
of National Statistics on Thursday said the economy grew 0.3 per
cent in the second quarter, after 0.2 per
cent in the first, the lowest growth for any major advanced economy since the start
of 2017, according to Reuters, which also
reported flat business investment and little growth in
household spending.
While payments are expected to rise in Alberta, the
report says that Calgary and Edmonton are still the most affordable condo markets when local incomes are taken into account, with mortgage payments taking only about 9 per
cent of household income.
The Federal Reserve Board
reported some staggering news last summer: one - half
of 1 per
cent of American families (just 419,590 out
of a total
of about 87 million
households) possess 35 per
cent of this country's privately held wealth.
The
report said, on average, CAP clients» outstanding debt equates to 96 per
cent of annual
household income when they seek help.
According to a 2011
report by the American Meat Institute, 18 per
cent of American
households now participate in Meatless Mondays.
According to DECC's most recent annual
report on fuel poverty there are 4.5 million fuel - poor
households in the UK — this equates to 17 per
cent of all UK
households.
The NAO finds the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has made «real and substantial progress» since its last
report in 2002, noting that # 6 billion was given out in pension credits to 2.7 million pensioner
households last year - a take up rate
of about 69 per
cent.
The TUC's
report finds that the poorest 10 per
cent lose services equivalent to more than 20 per
cent of their
household income, under the cuts.
The figures come just days after a
report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) which showed that actual
household income - what is left after the effect
of inflation is factored in - has fallen by 1.6 per
cent over the three years to the end
of 2011.
«Although financial assets made a relatively speedy recovery in the aftermath
of the crisis, achieving annual growth averaging 8.1 per
cent per annum over the past five years, the financial situation
of Canadian
households is anything but sustainable,» the
report reads.
Since 1991, the
report said the total financial obligations
of households has broken down, on average, in the following way: mortgage debt has represented 63 per
cent of all debt, consumer credit 29 per
cent and other loans eight per
cent.
The
report says 12 per
cent of households are highly indebted — and they carry about 40 per
cent of the country's overall
household debt load.
According to the article, which reviewed a recent Statistics Canada
report, «the amount
of household credit market debt rose to 167.3 per
cent of adjusted
household disposable income in the fourth quarter, up from 166.8 per
cent in the third quarter.»
Canada's telecom regulator says in the latest segment
of its annual
report that the average Canadian
household spent $ 203 a month on phone, Internet and TV services in 2014, up $ 11.92 or 6.2 per
cent from 2013.
The Australian Bureau
of Statistic
reports that its latest figures show that 19 per
cent of households nationally now currently either rooftop solar panels or solar powered hot water systems — up from about 5 per
cent back in 2011, when the ABS first started publishing statistics on solar.
Among all
of the Aboriginal children and young people living in Western Australia, 35.3 per
cent were found to be living in
households where a carer or a carer's parent (e.g. grandparent) was
reported to have been forcibly separated from their natural family.
Of the 398,400 Aboriginal
households counted in the census, close to 20 per
cent were located on reserves, says the
report.
The
report estimates that 1.48 million or 13.7 per
cent of Canadian
households were in core housing need in 2001, down from 1.57 million or 15.6 per
cent of households in 1996.
By 2030, the price
of solar power could go down to 6
cents per kWh, saving
households about $ 400 per year when compared with today, the
report says.