Personal Consumption Expenditures
Definition
Personal Consumption Expenditures. An economic indicator representing a measure of the value of the goods and services purchased by, or on the behalf of, 'persons'
Personal consumption expenditures consist of purchases of goods and services by households and by nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs). These goods and services include imputed expenditures on items such as the services of housing by a homeowner (the equivalent of rent), financial and insurance services for which there is no explicit charge, and medical care provided to individuals and financed by government or by private insurance.
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