Personal Consumption Expenditure by Country, Organized by Category of Expenditure               Personal Consumption expenditures available from macroeconomic models are typically aggregates. They thus are less useful both for analyzing how changing patterns of purchases by consumers at different stages of ecnomic development will impact company sales (for consumer goods manufacturers or service providers) than more detailed estimates of consumption expenditure by type.  Personal Consumption Expenditure is divided into 16 separate categories of purchases by consumers. Consumption shares vary significantly primarily due to differences in percapita income among countries in the group. Data Source: United Nations Standard National Accounts.  Forecasting Methods: Integrated system based on results from  models for personal consumption expenditure by category, government spending, intermediate demand by ISIC, and investment demand by ISIC, commodity prices, manufactured wages, employment by industry group, imports by  and exports by ISIC using an iterative process to insure partial convergence.    Applications:  Useful for consumer products companies wishing to project the future size of markets, including markets for special services.  May be useful for measuring potential of the lower-end market for personal consumption products.  Markets where the GINI coefficients show a highly skewed wealth distribution, but where the size of the mass market is huge in terms of numbers of potential consumers.  Techniques can be developed to measure the "potential" of these underserved markets using the full spectrum of data available in this database.   Metric & Classification Groups: Millions of US $s, 1995 US $s, and 1995 US $s at Purchasing Power Parity Prices Method for Filling Missing Observations: Econometric, Pooled-cross secitonal time series based on sample of data drawn from countries of similar size and stage of economic development.  Results are scaled to total personal consumption spending by country as measured using World Bank data. CrCode Sector Description OEF Code Country Name 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 E1A Food, beverages, and tobacco JOR Jordan       3,454       3,839       4,328       4,431       4,345       4,424       4,773       4,855       4,802       5,142       5,301       5,431       5,614       5,808       5,968       6,194       6,433       6,678      6,903 E1B Non-alcoholic beverages JOR Jordan           23           24           33           34           34           34           40           42           43           46           48           48           50           51           53           56           58           61           64 E1C Alcoholic beverages JOR Jordan           83           93         109         111         111         114         122         125         125         135         140         144         150         156         163         170         178         185         193 E1D Tobacco JOR Jordan         195         216         236         237         229         232         244         246         241         257         265         273         283         292         306         316         324         333         344 E2 Clothing and footwear JOR Jordan         449         469         567         573         535         526         598         608         606         644         657         672         692         717         744         771         800         829         858 E3A Fuel and power JOR Jordan           90         101         125         127         129         133         144         149         152         164         170         175         182         189         194         203         213         223         231 E3B Housing expenses JOR Jordan         486         542         610         629         621         634         687         698         691         741         767         789         817         847         872         905         939         975      1,007 E4A Household operations JOR Jordan         201         208         249         247         228         224         251         254         252         267         273         278         288         297         304         313         322         331         340 E4B Furniture, furnishing, and equipment JOR Jordan         188         189         245         241         220         213         245         250         254         269         273         278         287         295         307         317         327         337         349 E5