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What are the eight categories of consumer goods classification?
There are eight categories of consumer goods: food, clothing, household equipment and maintenance services, medical care, transportation and communication, entertainment, education and services, housing and other goods and services. Consumer goods are social products that meet people's material and cultural needs, and can also be called "consumption materials" or "means of subsistence". Consumer goods refer to those products purchased by final consumers for personal use. Marketers further subdivide consumer goods into daily necessities and shopping goods according to the way consumers buy consumer goods.

Contents of residents' consumption expenditure:

First, all kinds of commodities directly purchased by residents for daily consumption, including furniture, household appliances and other durable consumer goods that cannot be fully consumed in the current period, are also included in the current consumption according to the full purchase price.

Second, the expenses of various services directly purchased by residents for daily consumption, such as rent, transportation, washing, education, medical care, culture, daily necessities repair, family nanny, etc.

Third, all kinds of goods and services obtained by residents in the form of real wages for daily consumption, including goods and services obtained free of charge or at below-market prices.

Fourth, the virtual rent of residents' self-produced goods and their own houses included in the output during the accounting period. Household consumption does not include production input expenditure and housing investment.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Consumer Expenditure