Personal Consumption Expenditures: Services: Housing and Utilities for Mideast BEA Region (MESTPCEHOUSUTL)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis  

Release: Personal Consumption Expenditures by State  

Units:  Millions of Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Annual

A measure of spending on goods and services purchased by, and on behalf of, households based on households' state of residence in the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

Spending on housing and household utilities. Housing consists of the monetary rents paid by tenants for tenant-occupied housing, an imputed rental value for owner-occupied dwellings (measured as the income the homeowner could have received if the house had been rented to a tenant), the rental value of farm dwellings, and spending on group housing. Household utilities consist of water supply and sanitation and electricity and gas.For more information about this release go to http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/pce/pce_newsrelease.htm.