States/Territories - average weekly household expenditure 2003-04 - selected categories
Figures expressed as dollars and cents
NSW | Vic. | Qld | SA | WA | Tas. | NT(a) | ACT(b) | Aust. | |
Current housing costs | |||||||||
Rent | 58.00 | 37.50 | 49.38 | 31.91 | 38.95 | 28.16 | 60.43 | 64.36 | 46.60 |
Interest component of mortgage repayments | 46.04 | 35.36 | 31.63 | 32.79 | 39.42 | 22.19 | 61.84 | 40.31 | 38.24 |
Domestic fuel and power | |||||||||
Electricity | 16.54 | 16.60 | 16.08 | 20.97 | 15.38 | 24.02 | 26.64 | 19.99 | 17.03 |
Food and non-alcoholic beverages | |||||||||
Bread | 6.23 | 6.23 | 5.22 | 5.56 | 5.58 | 6.53 | 5.46 | 6.20 | 5.91 |
Fresh milk | 5.06 | 5.36 | 5.65 | 5.78 | 5.52 | 5.71 | 6.52 | 4.96 | 5.38 |
Sugar | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.29 | 0.49 | 0.25 | 0.32 | 0.33 |
Tea | 0.72 | 0.70 | 0.67 | 0.63 | 0.70 | 0.80 | 0.50 | 0.88 | 0.70 |
Coffee | 1.21 | 1.45 | 1.24 | 1.15 | 1.06 | 1.50 | 1.32 | 1.58 | 1.27 |
Vegetables | 11.13 | 10.77 | 9.86 | 9.32 | 10.86 | 10.33 | 11.33 | 11.82 | 10.61 |
Meat | 20.52 | 20.22 | 18.86 | 18.27 | 21.81 | 18.75 | 23.50 | 18.96 | 20.01 |
Fish/seafood | 4.64 | 3.92 | 3.21 | 2.82 | 3.42 | 3.10 | 3.41 | 4.17 | 3.85 |
Takeaway meals/fast food | 24.82 | 22.61 | 21.77 | 19.90 | 20.90 | 18.23 | 27.91 | 28.13 | 22.79 |
Alcoholic beverages | |||||||||
Beer | 9.18 | 8.76 | 7.95 | 8.15 | 13.08 | 12.45 | 15.56 | 7.98 | 9.25 |
Wine | 6.77 | 6.81 | 4.65 | 6.26 | 6.79 | 5.97 | 7.22 | 8.04 | 6.33 |
Tobacco products | |||||||||
Cigarettes | 11.04 | 10.77 | 10.27 | 10.35 | 10.27 | 13.40 | 13.02 | 9.14 | 10.73 |
Clothing and footwear | |||||||||
Men's clothing | 5.04 | 5.56 | 4.94 | 4.91 | 5.98 | 5.22 | 2.66 | 4.98 | 5.22 |
Women's clothing | 10.19 | 12.07 | 9.69 | 10.52 | 9.05 | 8.55 | 9.05 | 11.82 | 10.45 |
Household furnishings/equipment | |||||||||
Household appliances | 11.08 | 10.57 | 13.03 | 10.84 | 15.42 | 8.82 | 16.59 | 14.37 | 11.79 |
Household services/operation | |||||||||
Telephone, fixed line | 16.99 | 16.35 | 16.51 | 14.29 | 16.28 | 14.72 | 17.34 | 18.48 | 16.42 |
Telephone, mobile | 12.70 | 12.91 | 11.41 | 10.64 | 13.61 | 8.53 | 14.04 | 14.82 | 12.36 |
Child care | 5.48 | 4.50 | 5.20 | 2.82 | 3.97 | 2.12 | 6.24 | 8.07 | 4.78 |
Medical care/health expenses | |||||||||
Health/accident insurance | 18.09 | 16.97 | 16.48 | 19.17 | 18.61 | 17.93 | 16.51 | 20.25 | 17.66 |
Health practitioners' fees | 16.15 | 14.59 | 11.99 | 9.94 | 16.02 | 6.79 | 14.33 | 26.85 | 14.35 |
Transport | |||||||||
Motor vehicle purchase | 48.77 | 47.02 | 52.09 | 47.19 | 55.60 | 43.02 | 50.40 | 52.47 | 49.47 |
Petrol | 30.08 | 30.78 | 26.50 | 28.94 | 30.57 | 34.36 | 28.61 | 36.86 | 29.72 |
Public transport | 5.78 | 4.27 | 2.60 | 2.16 | 2.17 | 0.98 | 1.08 | 2.29 | 3.91 |
Recreation | |||||||||
Internet | 0.92 | 1.09 | 0.85 | 0.82 | 0.81 | 0.84 | 1.33 | 1.42 | 0.94 |
Pay TV | 3.15 | 2.59 | 2.54 | 2.51 | 2.00 | 1.80 | 4.78 | 2.25 | 2.69 |
Newspapers | 2.31 | 2.78 | 2.10 | 3.08 | 2.88 | 3.75 | 2.70 | 3.01 | 2.56 |
Personal care | |||||||||
Toiletries/cosmetics | 10.48 | 10.46 | 10.31 | 10.34 | 10.26 | 7.52 | 9.93 | 11.53 | 10.35 |
Miscellaneous goods and services | |||||||||
Primary/secondary education fees | 8.52 | 12.34 | 6.02 | 10.99 | 10.33 | 6.41 | 6.19 | 13.35 | 9.36 |
Higher education fees | 7.77 | 10.00 | 4.67 | 4.60 | 3.51 | 3.91 | 7.59 | 9.95 | 6.96 |
Total goods and services | 937.90 | 887.93 | 819.95 | 813.74 | 870.63 | 753.32 | 1037.57 | 1051.79 | 883.45 |
(a) Households in collection districts defined as very remote or Indigenous communities were excluded, accounting for about 23% of the population in the Northern Territory.
(b) As the balance of state is not available for the ACT, estimates for the ACT are the same as those for Canberra.