Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1980-1981 : Interview Survey.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 8423.

ICPSR ; 8423

Consumer Expenditure Survey Series ; 8423

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumers--United States--Attitudes.

Consumers.

United States.

Cost and standard of living--United States.

Cost and standard of living.

Consumption (Economics)--United States.

Consumption (Economics).

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Second ICPSR Release.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1985.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The ongoing Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) provides detailed information on income and expenditures and also furnishes the Bureau of Labor Statistics with data needed to maintain and review the Consumer Price Index. The quarterly Interview Survey component of the CES was designed to gather data on major items of expense, household characteristics, and income. Expenditures examined in this survey are those which respondents could be expected to recall fairly accurately for three months or longer. Consumer units, which are roughly equivalent to households, are interviewed once per quarter for five consectutive quarters. The initial interview collects demographic and family characteristics data and an inventory of major durable goods for each consumer unit. Expenditures are collected in this interview using a one-month recall. They are used along with the inventory information to bound the expenditure responsed for subsequent interviews and to classify the unit for analysis. The bounding of expenditure responses prevents duplicate reporting in subsequent interviews. Because the collected expenditure estimates in this initial interview are used for bounding purposes and not for expenditure estimates, these data are not placed on the files. The second through fifth interviews use uniform questionnaires to collect expenditure information in each quarter. Income information, such as wage, salary, unemployment compensation, child support, alimony, as well as information on the employment of each household member, are collected in the second and fifth interviews only. For new consumer unit members and members who started work since the previous interview, wage, salary, and other information on employment are collected in the third and fourth interviews. If there is no new employment information, it is carried over from the second interview to the third and fourth interviews... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08423

Contents:

Part 1: Family Characteristics and Income File, First Quarter, 1980; Part 2: Member Characteristics and Income File, First Quarter, 1980; Part 3: Detailed Expenditure File, First Quarter, 1980; Part 4: Income File, First Quarter, 1980; Part 5: Family Characteristics and Income File, Second Quarter, 1908; Part 6: Member Characteristics and Income File, Second Quarter, 1980; Part 7: Detailed Expenditure File, Second Quarter, 1980; Part 8: Income File, Second Quarter, 1980; Part 9: Family Characteristics and Income File, Third Quarter, 1980; Part 10: Member Characteristics and Income File, Third Quarter, 1980; Part 11: Detailed Expenditure File, Third Quarter, 1980; Part 12: Income File, Third Quarter, 1980; Part 13: Family Characteristics and Income File, Fourth Quarter, 1980; Part 14: Member Characteristics and Income File, Fourth Quarter, 1980; Part 15: Detailed Expenditure File, Fourth Quarter, 1980; Part 16: Income File, Fourth Quarter, 1980; Part 17: Family Characteristics and I...

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1980; and end: 1982.

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