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The Official Journal of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS)

Table 9 Composition of household expenditure (percentages).

From: A social accounting matrix for Iraq

Commodity

Rural

Urban

Region

Total

Female headed

Quintile

Total

Female headed

Quintile

Total

Baghdad

Kurdistan

Other governorates

1

2

3

4

5

1

2

3

4

5

Crops

15.7

18.3

14.7

13.1

11.2

8.5

14.4

9.9

15.5

13.1

11.5

9.9

6.9

10.2

10.5

8.6

12.4

11.1

Livestock

21.4

27.2

22.8

19.8

17.8

13.0

21.8

15.4

23.0

20.3

18.1

15.7

10.9

16.0

16.2

12.0

19.6

17.2

Processed food

11.0

12.8

12.2

12.6

10.8

8.9

11.8

10.8

11.9

12.0

12.0

11.3

7.8

10.5

13.0

9.0

10.5

10.8

Other manufacturing

10.8

10.1

11.5

12.7

13.0

12.2

11.5

10.9

9.6

10.8

11.5

12.4

12.0

11.5

10.0

12.7

11.7

11.5

Electricity and water

1.8

1.5

1.6

1.8

1.9

2.1

1.7

2.3

1.8

2.0

2.2

2.5

2.3

2.2

2.6

2.1

1.9

2.1

Trade

1.5

1.2

1.4

1.9

2.2

2.5

1.7

2.4

1.3

1.7

1.8

2.4

3.8

2.5

1.8

3.5

2.1

2.3

Transport

10.2

5.1

8.9

11.9

17.8

29.3

11.9

9.2

3.7

5.2

7.4

10.4

19.9

11.3

7.7

19.2

10.0

11.4

Financial services

1.4

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.2

0.6

1.3

0.4

0.3

0.4

0.7

1.7

0.9

0.4

1.9

0.7

0.9

Housing

23.9

21.2

23.9

22.7

21.3

19.7

22.0

34.8

30.7

32.2

32.5

32.0

31.5

32.2

35.1

27.7

28.6

29.9

Public services

2.3

2.3

2.6

2.8

3.2

2.7

2.6

2.9

2.3

2.5

2.5

2.8

3.2

2.8

2.7

3.3

2.6

2.8

Total

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

  1. Each cell represents the share of expenditure of the household group in the row headings (and their aggregates) that is spent into each of the commodities in the row headings