Consumer Spending In Dubai reached $10.3 billion in 2008
London, Thursday, March 02, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : Total consumer spending in Dubai hit Dh37.9 billion ($10.3 billion) in 2008, data from a recent report released by Dubai Statistics Center (DSC) revealed. The report was based on the consumers spends of both UAE national and expatriate families and Dubai and had a sample size of two percent of emirate’s 203,140 families, according to the 2005 census. The sample consisted of 1,208 national families, 2,159 non-national and 664 collective families.
Due to their high numbers, Asian families accounted for the highest percentage of the consumer spending, according to the report. Accounting for more than a third of the total annual consumer spending at 38.6 percent, Asians spent Dh14.6 billion.
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