volume of consumption

Rates are uniform throughout Quebec and are based on consumer type and volume of consumption.

It gives an indication of the effects this has on the volume of consumption and hence on employment rates in the country.

In this way the British combine Northern European volumes of consumption with frequency resembling that of Southern Europe.

The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions, raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression.

According to the source: "For ENI, the gap between the minimum volume of consumption outlined in the contract and the actual amount will be 5bn cu m, valued at $1.5bn by September prices."

This was defined as "the difference between society's 'optimum' output available in a historically given natural and technological environment under conditions of planned 'optimal' utilization of all available productive resources, and some chosen 'optimal' volume of consumption."

Then, with a given volume of consumption goods being produced and a relatively stable demand by capitalists for consumer goods, the increased demand in the form of extra wages being paid in Dept 1, will tend to push up the price of these consumer goods, produced by Dept.

A recent survey, conducted by the Higher School of Economics and the magazine Ekspert, on changes in Russian living standards between 1990 and 2009 found that income per head had increased by 45pc, while the volume of consumption per head had more than doubled, according to GDP-based consumption figures.