"intermediate consumption" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used to refer to goods and services purchased by one business and used to produce other products or services. For example: "The company increased its expenditure on intermediate consumption to improve production efficiency."
Lazy economists compare this number with the 1.6% growth in total GDP per man-hour in Europe, exaggerating the productivity gap.Another problem is that American statisticians count firms' spending on software as investment; in Europe it is treated as intermediate consumption.
The investor has neither intermediate consumption nor capital income to support her purchase of financial assets.
Materials Value of intermediate consumption deflated by the firm's price index of materials.
Sectoral gross output is a Leontief function of value-added and total intermediate consumption.
It allowed emphasizing the structural changes in intermediate consumption among the production activities of the economy.
Measured and simulated species concentration profiles of reactant (O2, CH4) consumption, intermediate (CO, H2) formation followed by intermediate consumption and product (CO2, H2O) formation are presented.
Assuming 3%% of GDP for intermediate energy consumption, the authors have estimated that negative impacts of a 10%% increase of the import gas price could be completely offset by 9%% improvement in gas efficiency.
The Japanese regional customs data cover 148 customs offices located in different provinces.6 We use the OECD end-use category for commodity classification to rearrange the Harmonized System eight-digit customs import and export data into three categories: intermediate products, consumption products, and capital products.
Demand consists of intermediate demand, household consumption, investment demand, public sector demand, and demand as transport and trade margins, all of which cover domestic and imported goods and services.
In addition, the regional export and import data taken from the customs statistics for trade in goods are further separated into three main categories (intermediate goods, household consumption goods, and capital goods) using the OECD end-use categories (mainly based on the Broad Economic Categories (BEC) defined by the United Nations Statistics Division).
We predicted that this 'ignore' group would show levels of food consumption intermediate between the stop and double-response groups, but that stop-training would still cause a significant reduction in intake relative to this ignore group.
