Consumption: The use of goods and services to meet human needs and desires.

Expenditure: All monetary payments or sacrifices made to purchase a good or service.

Purchase: The possession of any good or service by paying a certain fee.

Household consumption expenditure: The average monthly expenditure values ​​made by households for consumption purposes and consisting of the following components:

1. Purchase: The value of goods and services purchased by the household to meet its own consumption needs is included.

2. Consumption from own production: The consumption of substances obtained by households as a result of their own production, either as they are produced or by processing them. For example; the consumption of milk produced by the household itself, either as milk or by making cheese.

3. Consumption from in-kind income: The goods and services produced or offered for sale in the workplace where economically active members of the household work are taken as consumption from in-kind income. For example; food, clothing, etc. aid given to a wage earner by the workplace is considered as consumption from the in-kind income earned by the wage earner; and the in-kind income brought to the household by an employer or a self-employed individual to be consumed from the products they produce or sell in their workplace is considered as consumption.

4. Goods or services purchased by the household as gifts or aid to give to private individuals or organizations: The value of goods and services purchased by household members to be given to private individuals or organizations (as a gift or aid) during the survey month is included.

5. Imputational rent: The rental value of the house where the households whose property type is landlord, lodging and other (those who live in places belonging to their fathers, relatives etc. and pay no fee or very low rent) reside is evaluated as imputed rent. Imputed rent is included in consumption expenditure. Imputed rental value is determined by taking the rental value of a house with similar characteristics, rented in the same neighborhood and settlement as a precedent.

Household members' business expenses and non-consumption and investment expenses (purchase of real estate etc.) are not included.

Types of consumption expenditure:

1. Food and non-alcoholic beverages: Rice, bread, pasta, biscuits, crackers, pastries etc. It covers the expenses of bakery products, flour, meat and meat products, fish and seafood, milk, yogurt, cheese, other dairy products, eggs, butter, solid and liquid oils, olives, fruits, vegetables, sugar, jam, honey, chocolate and confectionery, ice cream, salt, spices, vinegar, coffee, tea and cocoa, mineral waters, water, fruit and vegetable juices and other non-alcoholic beverages.

2. Alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and tobacco: It covers the expenses of drinks, liqueurs, wine, beer, cigarettes, cigars, tobacco.

3. Clothing and shoes: It covers the expenses related to fabrics, all kinds of men's, women's, children's and baby clothing, clothing materials and accessories, dry cleaning, clothing repair, sewing and rental, men's, women's, children's and baby shoes, shoe repair and rental.

4. Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels: It covers the expenses related to the actual rental fee, imputed rental fee (determined for homeowners and free occupants), services related to the maintenance and repair of the housing and the materials used in this regard (whitewashing, painting, flooring, windows, doors, bathroom and toilet equipment, plumbing, electrical installations, etc.), garbage collection and sewage services, other services related to the housing, mains water, electricity, gas, liquid and solid fuels.

5. Furniture, household appliances and home maintenance services: It covers the expenses related to furniture, carpets and other flooring, repair of furniture and home furnishings, home textile products, refrigerators, freezers, washing machines and dishwashers, ovens, heaters, air conditioners, sewing machines, small electrical appliances, glass and crystal items and kitchenware such as forks, knives and tableware, repair of household appliances, detergents, etc. household cleaning products, daily workers, cooks, etc. for housing and household services.

6. Health: Includes expenses related to medicines, health products, therapeutic tools and materials (glasses, lenses, neck braces, hearing aids, walkers, etc.), health-related devices (blood pressure monitor, sugar meter, etc.), hospital and non-hospital medical services (doctor's examination fee, dental services, x-ray, ultrasound, tomography, analysis, etc., hospital bed, surgery, birth, physical therapy, ambulance, etc.

7. Transportation: Purchase of transportation vehicles (first and second-hand), motorcycles, bicycles, spare parts and accessories, fuel and oils, maintenance and repairs, passenger transportation (rail, road, air, sea and water), repair of transportation vehicles, other transportation (shipping, cargo, etc. transportation) services and