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Fri 07 Jul 2007Consumers are better off than in 2000, says CSOConsumers are better off now than they were at the start of the decade, with the average household spending €788 every week out of an average disposable income of €842, according to a new household budget survey by the Central Statistics Office. Laura Slatteryreports.Household spending in 2004-2005 was 36 per cent higher than it was in 1999-2000, when the CSO last conducted this kind of survey.