Personal Consumption Expenditure, by Category, Organized by Country               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. 1990 - 2050 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 E4A Household operations ARG Argentina      3,496      3,864      4,255      4,458      4,705      4,450      4,738      5,185      5,376      5,144      5,098      4,775      4,001      4,141      4,533      4,751      4,910      4,994      5,124 E4A Household operations AUS Australia      4,621      4,682      4,905      4,980      5,127      5,254      5,423      5,752      6,078      6,401      6,643      6,819      7,087      7,336      7,835      7,969      8,211      8,530      8,865 E4A Household operations AUT Austria      1,859      1,936      1,980      2,042      2,155      2,229      2,314      2,357      2,385      2,461      2,579      2,629      2,636      2,686      2,702      2,799      2,899      2,991      3,078 E4A Household operations BGD Bangladesh        559        552        574        592        614        632        626        655        658        673        688        705        726        751        781        808        836        866        898 E4A Household operations BEL Belgium      1,813      1,860      1,789      1,737      1,756      1,836      1,883      1,887      1,964      2,007      2,098      2,119      2,104      2,156      2,201      2,261      2,327      2,390      2,454 E4A Household operations BOL Bolivia          37          38          42          42          43          43          44          46          48          49          50          51          52          53          54          56          58          60          62 E4A Household operations BRA Brazil      7,322      7,656      7,170      7,708      8,283      9,139      9,522      9,731      9,845      9,689    10,031    10,094      9,958      9,638      9,759      9,838    10,172    10,527    10,867 E4A Household operations BGR Bulgaria        358        327        308        345        383        384        353        281        294        311        320        329        340        353        367        380        391        402        413 E4A Household operations CMR Cameroon        168        159        140        149        158        164        168        186        191        184        192        200        209        220        230        241        254        266        279 E4A Household operations CAN Canada      8,276