Sources: World Consumer Income and Expenditure Patterns 2011

Price and Income Elasticities Estimated from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys and ACCRA Price Data

Price and Income Elasticities Estimated From BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys and ACCRA Price Data Lester D. Taylor University of Arizona* This paper represents a low-key effort to estimate both price and income elasticities for several broad categories of expenditure from cross-sectional data sets that combine price information collected by ACCRA with the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys. Sixt...

Aggregate Consumers' Expenditure and Income

Poverty-Measurement Research Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation

The most recent comprehensive examination of poverty measurement in the United States was conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance (Constance F. Citro and Robert T. Michael, 1995). In their report, the Panel recommended changing the definition of both the poverty thresholds and the resources that are used to measure poverty. In this paper we imp...

Consumer Expenditure Survey Anthology, 2008: Evaluation of the 2005 Redesigned Consumer Expenditure Survey Diary

1 Stinson, L., et. al., Creating a “UserFriendly” Expenditure Diary, Consumer Expenditure Survey Anthology, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Report 967, pp 3-17, April 2003. 2 Figueroa, E., et. al., Is a User-Friendly Diary More Effective? Findings from a Field Test, Consumer Expenditure Survey Anthology, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Report 981, pp 2-8, April 2005. 3 Cues are examples of good...

Reclassifying Low- Expenditure Consumer Units in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey

O ne of the primary uses of data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) is the computation of weights representing the purchases of goods and services in the construction of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a principal Federal economic indicator. Accurate representation of actual expenditures is thus critically important beyond usual data quality standards. The CE processing system has severa...