Primary expenditure categories include:

Annual growth rates since 2001 in the top three expenditure categories (Healthcare, Social Security, and Defense) are far above the economic growth rate.

National accounting has developed in tandem with macroeconomics from the 1930s with its relation of aggregate demand to total output through interaction of such broad expenditure categories as consumption and investment.

To be considered financially independent, the respondent must provide at least two of the three major expenditure categories, either entirely or in part.

But in terms of the expenditure categories, we believe they accurately reflect the expenditure characteristics of American households.

"Since we couldn't identify specific vendors, we identified specific expenditures," Mr. Herschmann said, explaining that the expenditure categories include capital improvements, repairs, maintenance and supplies.

And since virtually all expenditure categories in the budget are growing less rapidly than revenues, one might expect the deficit to continue to fall thereafter.

I should like to finish the overview of the different expenditure categories with the expenditure on pre-accession aid.

Within the separate expenditure categories, we are still critical of the way in which export subsidies for the transport of live animals are dealt with.

In accordance with the above-mentioned principles, agreement has been reached on a number of important decisions of the expenditure category, which I will briefly introduce now.