Not exact matches
This sort of inflation tends to show up in
expenditure categories such as
food, energy, motor fuel and apparel.
Indeed, in the December quarter, tradables prices (excluding petrol and
food) declined by 0.5 per cent, to be 0.8 per cent lower over the year, with downward pressure clearly evident in a broad range of
expenditure categories.
From the total
expenditures reported in the above accounts, costs for the following
categories are deducted: (1) Non-agency activities; (2) Community Services; (3)
Food Services; (4) Fringe Benefits for Retired Persons; and (5) Facilities Acquisition and Construction.
Aside from the fact that it's pretty comprehensive — it allows you to enter several dozen expense items in eight broad spending
categories — the tool also helps you see how much of your spending goes toward essentials (
food, housing, health care, etc.) vs. discretionary
expenditures (entertainment, dining out, charitable donations, etc.).
BlackRock's Retirement Expense Worksheet, for example, allows you to enter upwards of 50 separate expense items in eight
categories ranging from essential
expenditures such as housing,
food and insurance to more discretionary outlays like entertainment, travel, gifts and charitable contributions.
The largest
categories of monthly consumption
expenditure are housing ($ 1,407), transportation ($ 750) and
food ($ 588).
Furthermore, dollars spent by an access or secondary custodial parent do not necessarily translate into a dollar for dollar reduction in
expenditures by the primary custodial parent, many of whose major child - related costs are fixed — such as housing and transportation; any savings will typically be only with respect to a small
category of
expenditures for
food and entertainment.