Domestic demand was up by 6.8 per cent over the year,
with household consumption, residential investment and business investment all growing rapidly.
Not exact matches
The value of total
household consumption through the first nine months of 2015 is little changed compared
with the same period in 2014, according to StatsCan data.
The best predictor of
household consumption is income growth,
with wages being the most important component of income.
While it is not directly related to replacement rates per se, the authors use pairs of cross sectional data from the GSS and from Statistics Canada's 1992 Family Expenditure Surveys and the 1998 Survey of
Household Spending to illustrate that both real family income and real family
consumption adjusted for
household size tend to be hump - shaped
with respect to age and peak in the 50s, while general satisfaction
with life tends to stay relatively constant through different ages.
With total payments little changed, the rise in scheduled payments has had no obvious implications for
household consumption.
This, combined
with widespread moral hazard, had inevitably to result in both tremendous misuse of capital and a sharp decline in the
consumption share of GDP (as the
household income share declined)-- both of which of course happened to a remarkable degree in China.
But if
households retain a low share of everything they produce,
with governments and businesses getting the rest, then again, whether they are as thrifty as ants or as spendthrift as grasshoppers, their total
consumption will be a low share of total GDP, and the country's total savings, which is equal to GDP minus
consumption, will be a high share.
At the same time unemployment will rise, which will partially reduce the savings rate, but worried Chinese
households with jobs will cut back on
consumption, which will increase the savings rate.
Using PSID data from 1976 through 2003, we find that
households that experience an involuntary job loss reduce their
consumption more if they live in states
with higher bankruptcy exemptions.
The speed
with which China's GDP growth slows in 2013 will tell us a lot about how determined Beijing is to rebalance the economy in such a way that growth is driven more by higher
household income and
consumption and less by investment funded by rising government and government - related debt.
With it will come growing demand for goods linked to
household consumption — particularly agricultural products.
Until we understand this do not expect the global crisis to end anytime soon, except perhaps temporarily
with a new surge in credit - fueled
consumption in the US (which will cause the trade deficit to worsen) and more wasted investment in China (which, because it is financed
with cheap debt, which comes at the expense of the
household sector, may simply increase investment at the expense of
consumption).
Growth in
household consumption was subdued
with business investment and net trade contributing to the annual GDP numbers, in line
with the MPC's November Inflation Report.
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.
An expected continuation of positive labour market conditions and strong growth in
household income, coupled
with falling petrol prices and further scheduled tax cuts in July, also point to the pace of
consumption growth remaining firm.
The joint venture, by affiliates of GLP and Brookfield, intends to install 300 megawatts of rooftop solar projects over the next three years,
with a broader one - gigawatt development pipeline, equivalent to the annual power
consumption of approximately 750,000
households.
In China, this has been the case since 2011,
with total
household consumption spending growing on average faster than overall GDP by 1.5 percentage points each year.
With consumption growing more quickly than disposable income, there has been a significant fall in the
household saving ratio.
In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces
with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also
household consumption.
With income growth outpacing that in
consumption, there was also a small increase in the measured
household saving ratio.
Against this backdrop, we maintain our scenario of a strengthening cyclical recovery,
with euro area GDP growing at around 1.8 % this year and next, above potential, on the back of rising domestic demand (
household consumption and investment) fuelled by bank credit.
Like most forest - dependent groups, these communities have a tremendous knowledge of biodiversity, and their harvesting of forest products for
consumption and / or trade generates critical
household income and provides them
with an opportunity for sustainable economic growth.
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.
The researchers estimated that adding energy storage to a
household with solar panels increases its annual energy
consumption by about 324 to 591 kilowatt - hours.
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 HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current
household energy
consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times
with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize the proportion of
household - produced energy they use.
The energy management system uses this information together
with weather and
consumption forecasts to estimate the flows through the
household power network.
In a second step, the researchers compared the average of the three - year total
consumption of these drugs by health - care establishments
with the total annual
consumption of selected substances by German
households.
Results from the implementation of the same basic program, adapted to a wide variety of geographic and institutional contexts and
with multiple implementing partners, show statistically significant cost - effective impacts on
consumption (fueled mostly by increases in self - employment income) and psychosocial status of the targeted
households.
* Television is a top source of media
consumption,
with 4 in 10
households containing 4 or more televisions.
A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «
With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income
households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food
consumption by the poor.»
This has impacted heavily on the women and children who now have to walk further to fetch water for
household consumption from different water points where they scramble for the meager resource
with livestock.
One that wasn't paywalled, The Influence of Urban Form on GHG Emissions in the U.S.
Household Sector, showed that «doubling population - weighted density is associated
with a reduction in CO2 emissions from
household travel and residential energy
consumption by 48 % and 35 %, respectively.»
49 Rising Energy Costs for Consumers Average annual
household utility bills have increased 48 % since 1980 (adjusted for inflation)-- Add in today's average annual gasoline budget per
household and today's estimated annual home energy budget is over $ 3,800 Electricity costs continue to rise,
with some utilities requesting rate increases of 35 % or more Spending on electricity is the highest share of total consumer spending since the energy crisis of 2000 Energy
consumption has been rising along
with costs — Electricity consumed by the typical American
household has more than doubled since 1980 and is expected to increase another 20 % by 2015
Reading «between the lines» the article suggests that a 4kW solar installation is large enough to generate more power than many
households» annual electricity
consumption (and I would agree
with this; especially for those people who were aware of, and cared about, their energy
consumption).
Still, given that an Australian wind farm
with an installed capacity of 50 MW would be only moderate in size, even if the average
household consumption is 1 kW we can calculate that this moderate - sized wind farm would generate enough electricity to supply more than 17 000 homes.
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.
Every week, the Wa $ ted team, led by Annabelle along
with «green» handyman Holter Graham, audits a
household's waste, energy, water and transportation
consumption.
«
With the average person flushing five times a day, toilets make up about 31 % of overall
household water
consumption.»
The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold
with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class
households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal
consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil
consumption was likewise suppressed.
LONDON — February 8, 2018 —
With energy
consumption of each bitcoin transaction equal to 17.5 U.S
household's daily
consumption as of January...
- More than six in ten
households with Internet access have a Wi - Fi network at home: Sixty - two percent of homes
with Internet access have wireless network set - ups in their homes, more easily enabling the
consumption of digital media in any room of their home, as more and more devices feature built - in Wi - Fi.
The Pew Internet report, in conjunction
with Elon University, found that 51 percent of survey participants agreed that by 2020, the connected
household will have «become a model of efficiency, as people are able to manage
consumption of resources (electricity, water, food, even bandwidth) in ways that place less of a burden on the environment while saving
households money.»