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Children splash out on snacks.
Children in the UK spend £13 a week, with the biggest proportion of their
spending going on sweets, snacks and drinks, according to official figures released
today.
In 2002-03 and 2003-04, the nation's seven to 15-year-olds spent an average of
£2.30 a week on snack-type food and a further £2.30 on other food - including
school meals and takeaways - according to figures from the Office for National
Statistics (ONS). These two categories made up 36% of their spending.
Clothing and footwear accounted for £2.00 of their cash, while games and hobbies
cost them £1.70, 80p of which went on electronic games and software. Mobile
phone costs represented just 50p of the £13.00 total.
Young teenagers were the biggest spenders, with girls aged between 13 and 15
spending an average of £21.50 a week and boys of the same age group spending
£20.40. Children aged seven to nine spent an average of £7.00 a week, while 10 to
12-year-olds spent £11.00.
The average weekly spend on confectionery, snacks and drinks among young
teenagers was £6.80 - over a quarter of their total spend.
Young teenage girls were the biggest spenders on mobile phones, averaging £1.50
a week compared with an average spend of 90p among their male peers, while
young boys spent a larger proportion of their money on games and hobbies (35%).
Spending by children contributed to an average family outlay of £418 a week in
2003-04, according to the ONS's annual review of family spending.
Its expenditure and food survey of around 7,000 UK households revealed that the
bulk of spending went on transport, accounting for £61 a week.
This included £28.10 spent on the purchase of a vehicle and £23.80 spent on
running it. Public transport accounted for just £8.80 of the weekly spend.
Recreation was the next biggest outlay, with £57 a week going on TVs, computers,
newspapers, books, leisure activities and holidays.
Package holidays abroad cost families an average of £11.60 for each week of the
year, while just 80p a week went towards package holidays in the UK.
Total expenditure varied according to the size of the family and where it lived. In
London, the average weekly spend was £486, compared with £336 in the northeast.
Households consisting of three or more adults spent an average of £686 a week,
while the 'average' family of two adults and two children spent £611.
For the first time the ONS looked into the amount spent by households on housingrelated
costs.
It found that £116 of family spending went towards running a property, with an
average of £39 a week spent on mortgage repayments, £23 on alterations and
improvements, £20 on council tax, water charges and other service charges and
£13 on rent.
When only households paying mortgages were put under the spotlight, the average
weekly spend on repayments was found to be £97.
Households in London paid £134 a week - 31% more than the national average -
while those in the north-east spent just £58 to service their mortgage.
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