Survey of household spending (SHS), household spending on health care, by province and territory

This table contains 1288 series, with data for years 1997 - 2009 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...); Household spending, health care (23 items: Total health care; Direct health care costs to household; Health care supplies (for example, first aid kits, wheelchairs); Medicinal and pharmaceutical products; ...); Statistics (4 items: Average expenditure; Percent of households reporting; Estimated number of households reporting; Median expenditure per household reporting).

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Last Updated January 16, 2026, 20:52 (UTC)
Created January 16, 2026, 20:52 (UTC)
contains_pii non
criticality_level Élevé
data_formats CSV; HTML; XML
fair_openness Level 2 - Machine-readable
geographic_scope Canada
sensitivity_level Faible
source_inventaire Inventaire_W
source_url https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/130aabb7-b3fb-4abb-85fc-0c73f5fd99cd
subject economics_and_industry, health_and_safety
update_frequency P1Y
year_most_recent 2023-01-17 21:50:26.349000
year_start 2018-06-27 15:33:09.248000