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Table 2.5.6. Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by Type of Expenditure, Chained Dollars


1. Consists of purchases (including tips) of meals and beverages from retail, service, and amusement establishments, hotels, dining and buffet cars, schools, school fraternities, institutions, clubs, and industrial lunchrooms. Includes meals and beverages consumed both on- and off-premise.
2. Includes luggage.
3. Consists of watch, clock, and jewelry repairs, costume and dress suit rental, and miscellaneous personal services.
4. Consists of rent for space and for heating and plumbing facilities, water heaters, lighting fixtures, kitchen cabinets, linoleum, storm windows and doors, window screens, and screen doors, but excludes rent for appliances and furniture and purchases of fuel and electricity.
5. Consists of space rent (see footnote 4) and rent for appliances, furnishings, and furniture.
6. Consists of transient hotels, motels, other traveler accommodations, clubs, schools, and other group housing.
7. Consists of refrigerators and freezers, cooking ranges, dishwashers, laundry equipment, stoves, room air conditioners, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, and other appliances.
8. Includes such house furnishings as floor coverings, picture frames, mirrors, art products, portable lamps, clocks, blinds, shades, drapery hardware, and telephone equipment. Also includes writing equipment and hand, power, and garden tools.
9. Consists largely of textile house furnishings, including piece goods allocated to house furnishing use. Also includes lamp shades, brooms, and brushes.
10. Consists of repair and maintenance services for appliances and house furnishings, moving and warehouse expenses, postage and parcel delivery charges, premiums plus premium supplements less normal losses and dividends paid to policyholders for insurance on personal property (except motor vehicles), and miscellaneous household operation services.
11. Excludes drug preparations and related products dispensed by physicians, hospitals, and other medical services.
12. Consists of offices of physicians, HMO medical centers, and freestanding ambulatory surgical and emergency centers.
13. Consists of chiropractors, optometrists, mental health practitioners (except physicians), physical, occupational and speech therapists, and audiologists, podiatrists, all other miscellaneous health practitioners, ambulance services, kidney dialysis centers, family planning services, outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers, all other outpatient care centers, blood and organ banks, all other miscellaneous ambulatory health care services, home health furniture and equipment rental, medical and diagnostic laboratories, and home health care.
14. Consists of (1) current expenditures (including consumption of fixed capital) of nonprofit hospitals and nursing homes, and (2) payments by patients to proprietary and government hospitals and nursing homes.
15. Consists of premiums less benefits for health, hospitalization, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
16. Consists of premiums less benefits for income loss insurance.
17. Consists of premiums plus premium supplements less normal losses and dividends paid to policyholders for privately administered workers' compensation.
18. Consists of (1) operating expenses of commercial life insurance carriers and fraternal benefit life insurance and (2) administrative expenses of private noninsured pension plans and publicly administered government employee retirement plans. For commercial life insurance carriers, excludes expenses for accident and health insurance and includes profits of stock companies and services furnished without payment by banks, credit agencies, and investment companies. For pension and retirement plans, excludes services furnished without payment by banks, credit agencies, and investment companies.
19. Consists of current expenditures (including consumption of fixed capital) of trade unions and professional associations, employment agency fees, money order fees, spending for classified advertisements, tax return preparation services, and other personal business services.
20. Consists of premiums plus premium supplements less normal losses and dividends paid to policyholders for motor vehicle insurance.
21. Consists of baggage charges, coastal and inland waterway fares, travel agents' fees, airport bus fares, and limousine services.
22. The quantity index for computers can be used to accurately measure the real growth rate of this component. However, because computers exhibit rapid changes in prices relative to other prices in the economy, the chained-dollar estimates should not be used to measure the component's relative importance or its contribution to the growth rate of more aggregate series.
23. Consists of admissions to professional and amateur athletic events and to racetracks.
24. Consists of current expenditures (including consumption of fixed capital) of nonprofit clubs and fraternal organizations and dues and fees paid to proprietary clubs.
25. Consists of billiard parlors; bowling alleys; dancing, riding, shooting, skating, and swimming places; amusement devices and parks; golf courses; skiing facilities; marinas; sightseeing; private flying operations; casino gambling; recreational equipment rental, and other commercial participant amusements.
26. Consists of lotteries, pets and pet care services, cable TV, film processing, photographic studios, sporting and recreation camps, video rentals, internet access fees, and recreational services, not elsewhere classified.
27. For private institutions, equals current expenditures (including consumption of fixed capital) less receipts-- such as those from meals, rooms, and entertainments--accounted for separately in consumer expenditures, and less expenditures for research and development financed under contracts or grants. For government institutions, equals student payments of tuition.
28. For private institutions, equals current expenditures (including consumption of fixed capital) less receipts-- such as those from meals, rooms, and entertainments--accounted for separately in consumer expenditures. For government institutions, equals student payments of tuition. Excludes child day care services, which are included in religious and welfare activities.
29. Consists of (1) fees paid to business schools and computer and management training, technical and trade schools, other schools and instruction, and educational support services, and (2) current expenditures (including consumption of fixed capital) by nonprofit research organizations and by grantmaking foundations for education and research.
30. For nonprofit institutions, equals current expenditures (including consumption of fixed capital) of religious organizations, child day care services (excluding educational programs), social advocacy organizations, human rights organizations, civic and social organizations, residential mental health and substance abuse facilities, homes for the elderly, other residential care facilities, social assistance services, political organizations, museums, libraries, and grantmaking and giving services. The expenditures are net of receipts--such as those from meals, rooms, and entertainments--accounted for separately in consumer expenditures, and exclude relief payments within the United States and expenditures by grantmaking foundations for education and research. For proprietary and government institutions, equals receipts from users.
31. Beginning with 1981, includes U.S. students' expenditures abroad.
32. Beginning with 1981, includes nonresidents' student and medical care expenditures in the United States. Beginning with 1986, includes migratory worker and foreign professional expenditures in the U.S..
Note. Consumer durable goods are designated (d.), nondurable goods (n.d.), and services (s.).

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