"This report presents tabulations of family expenditure in Canada obtained from a survey carried out in January, February and March, 1970 and refers to the calendar year 1969. These tabulations are designed to show patterns of expenditure for families and unattached individuals in Canada as a whole, classified by selected characteristics such as province, urbanization size class, family type, family life cycle, family income, tenure, age of head, occupation of head, education of head, country of origin and immigrant arrival year. For brevity, as well as reliability, these Canada tables reflect rather more the requirement of adequate within-class sample sizes, than that of obtaining relatively homogeneous groupings of families. The provision for tabulations referring more specifically to different geographic regions of Canada and to major regional urban centres are covered in a second and third volume"--Introd., p. [5].