Same goes for personal consumption expenditures despite the resolution of household net worth.
The man claimed the tens of thousands of caterpillars were to be used as food and were for personal consumption.
And although the extra wealth might be used for personal consumption, it could also, if Canadians preferred, be used to increase social spending.
General governmental final consumption expenditures on individual goods and services consist of outlays of government institutions on consumer goods and services intended for personal consumption.
All told, over the four quarters of 2007, the price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased 3.4 percent, up from 1.9 percent during 2006.
Another measure of core inflation that we monitor closely, based on the price index for personal consumption expenditures excluding food and energy, shows a similar pattern.
At the same time the national price index for personal consumption spending increased 0.3% in the third quarter, which is seasonally adjusted, but may reflect a slight pick up in pre-holiday spending.
Consumer electronics includes devices used to display media at home for personal media consumption.
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The government said the main drivers for the fall were personal consumption expenditures, which fell 3.1%, the sharpest drop in 28 years.
People are looking for bargains and appear to be less interested in conspicuous consumption as a source for personal gratification.
Before that, personal consumption expenditures for December will be released Monday, and Wall Street expects the Commerce Department to report a 0.9% drop.
Personal consumption accounts for about two-thirds of American GDP, so the fact that consumers appeared to be keeping their nerve, unable to shake off their addiction to shopping, provided comfort to some observers.
The head of the Food Standards Agency, Sir John Krebs, said a loophole under existing rules meant beef was exempt from strict controls if the animal was killed on a farm or at an unlicensed abattoir for the farmer's personal consumption.
Personal consumption expenditures, for example, increased by 2.0 percent at an annual rate in 2012:Q3, as compared with 1.5 percent in the previous quarter.
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According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the pre-financial crisis peak in personal consumption (adjusted for inflation) was in the fourth calendar quarter of 2007.
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She pointed to a practice known as "Doxing" where hackers post personal details about a person for public consumption online.
The Fed closely watches a cumbersome-sounding index, the core personal consumption expenditure deflator, for signs of inflation, and in the last few months, that indicator has dropped within the range Bernanke has been looking for--after three years of coming in above his range.
The only bright spot for Japan last quarter was consumption, but personal spending cannot remain high if the rest of the economy continues to crumble.
Put a 25 percent tax rate on individuals and corporations and see how it comes out in terms of personal consumption expenditures and corporate spending for plant and equipment, even research and development.
China is already one of the largest markets for mobile telephones and pagers, personal computers and antibiotics, and accounts for about one-third of global cigarette consumption.
Our jobs and our personal lives are not usually a subject for daily media consumption.
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To achieve this, they curtailed personal consumption and drove remarkable behavior change to free up financial and other resources for the war effort.
There are also other consumption of goods and services that are produced for own use (agricultural produce of personal subsidiary plots, imputed services of owner-occupied dwellings), and received as labour remuneration.
It also develops mobile DRAM products that are specialty DRAM memory devices designed for applications that require minimal power consumption such as smart phones, GPS devices, tablets, as personal digital assistants and digital still cameras.
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