Sentences with phrase «household consumption level»

Food is lost throughout the supply chains; from primary production to final household consumption level.

Not exact matches

According to the US Geological Survey, US household water consumption is declining to mid-1990s levels.

First, because they represented a transfer from net savers to net borrowers, they helped to exacerbate the split between the growth in household income (households are net savers) and the growth in GDP (which is generated by net borrowers), and so led directly to the extraordinary imbalance in the Chinese economy in which consumption, as a share of GDP, has declined to perhaps the lowest level ever recorded in history.

In the case of the household sector, both Mr. Flaherty and the Governor of the Bank of Canada are warning Canadians about their high debt levels and urging them to curtail their consumption and to reduce their debt.

Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

However, this is changing, and the increase in the level of household debt over the past decade is a major shift, with significant knock - on implications for consumption.

The pick - up in consumption in the March quarter appears to be continuing and is being supported by further increases in consumer confidence; household spending increased by 2 1/2 per cent in the June quarter and consumer confidence is now at its highest level in 4 years (Graph 3).

Together, households in the 4th and 5th quintile account for only 10 % of the total sample, yet consume 40 % of the total volume of alcohol, with an average apparent consumption above the recommended level for low - risk of harm over the lifetime (i.e. no more than 2 standard drinks / day over the lifetime).

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the change over time in the general price level of goods and services that households acquire for the purpose of consumption, with reference to the price level in 2012, the base year, which has an index of 100.

A new study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile - money services — which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone — increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000, or roughly 2 percent, of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $ 1.25 per day).

The increase in use of words like «choose,» «compete,» «private,» «autonomy» and «innovation» demonstrated a growing prevalence of individualistic values coinciding with sharp rises in urban population, household consumption and education levels.

The results reveal that, after a comparison at national level, the vast number of substances tested show a clearly higher average consumption — thus more contaminant emissions — by private households than health care facilities.

More importantly, says a Harvard study, «The current rate spread is an important influence on mortgage choice, as would be implied by a model in which borrowing - constrained households seek low rates in order to maintain the level of current consumption, or to increase the size of the house they can buy when constrained by bank limitations on mortgage interest - to - income ratios.»

And the virtuous reduction in average fuel - consumption levels, which made more household and corporate income available for other uses, was largely erased during the past 15 years.

This results in a significant reduction in non-renewable biomass consumption and levels of indoor air pollution in project households.

Beyond household achievements, the report fails to deal with the implications of the full energy ladder, which is that levels of energy consumption in poor countries will rise 50 to 100 times higher through processes of modernization.

The difference between the DRA in Gomboc and the electricity records in Plant is that the former revealed electricity consumption patterns at a much higher level detail, such that stronger inferences could be drawn about the precise household activities giving rise to those consumption patterns (e.g., marijuana grow operation).

During 2012, households will need to find their equilibrium between household debt levels and consumption.