{"id":8770,"date":"2015-10-26T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:40:59","slug":"80-per-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=8770","title":{"rendered":"$80 per person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across all income levels, in 2014, Canadians spent roughly the same amount of money per person on communications &#8211; in the order of $80 per person per month for phone, internet and TV.<\/p>\n<p>That was the result of doing a little arithmetic on the <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/1W6sVg5\" target=\"_blank\">data released by the CRTC<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\">\n<table id=\"t203\" class=\"table table-bordered text-right\">\n<caption class=\"text-left\"><strong>Table 2.0.3 Household communications expenditures at a glance, by quintile, 2013<\/strong><\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Characteristics<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">First quintile (household income less than $30,668)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Second quintile (household income from $30,669 to $51,804)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Third quintile (household income from $51,805 to $79,722)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Fourth quintile (household income from $79,723 to $121,291)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Fifth quintile (household income over $121,292)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Average of all quintiles<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-left\">Average annual income<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$18,582<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$41,105<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$64,854<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$98,634<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$199,702<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$84,575<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-left\">Members per household<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">1.49<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.11<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.49<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.95<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3.34<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-left\">Communications expenditures as a percentage of annual income<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">8.3%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.9%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3.8%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.8%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">1.7%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><small>Sources: Statistics Canada\u2019s Survey of Household Spending<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I did a little more analysis on that table, using simple arithmetic to derive the following:<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\">\n<table id=\"t203\" class=\"table table-bordered text-right\">\n<caption class=\"text-left\"><em>Supplementary analysis<\/em><\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Characteristics<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">First quintile (household income less than $30,668)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Second quintile (household income from $30,669 to $51,804)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Third quintile (household income from $51,805 to $79,722)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Fourth quintile (household income from $79,723 to $121,291)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Fifth quintile (household income over $121,292)<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\">Average of all quintiles<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-left\">Average Communications Bill<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$1,542.31<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$2,014.15<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$2,464.45<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$2,761.75<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$3,394.93<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$2,452.68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-left\">Annual Bill per Person<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$1,035.10<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$954.57<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$989.74<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$936.19<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$1,016.45<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$988.98<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"text-left\">Monthly Bill per Person<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$86.26<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$79.55<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$82.48<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$78.02<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$84.70<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">$82.42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the factors impacting the higher cost on a per person basis in the lowest income quintile may be the smaller average household size &#8211; just 1.49. While mobile services are sold to individuals, other services (TV, home internet, wired phones) are sold to the household. The slightly higher cost of communications on a per person basis in the lower income levels might be attributable to a &#8220;single supplement&#8221; effect &#8211; a higher cost per person due to living alone.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom service provider marketing departments and social service agencies alike need to consider household sizes as they examine ways to\u00a0help make services more accessible for these lower income quintiles.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller household sizes would also be an explanation for why lower income households have a greater tendency to be wireless only. The CRTC suggested that it may be an issue of affordability:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet as Canadians embrace mobile wireless, a more precise picture emerges when examining this trend across income quintiles. For instance, wireless-only households are most prominent among the two lowest income quintiles &#8230; This suggests that the rise of mobile-only households does not solely reflect changing preferences but may also be driven by affordability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is important to look at the significant differences in size of household across the income quintiles. With small households, affordability may not be the most important factor driving wireless-only choices.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of single member households, at any income level, going &#8220;wireless only&#8221; is just plain common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across all income levels, in 2014, Canadians spent roughly the same amount of money per person on communications &#8211; in the order of $80 per person per month for phone, internet and TV. That was the result of doing a little arithmetic on the data released by the CRTC last week. 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