Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Consumer Expenditures Survey, 1998-99
Author: Consumer Expenditures Survey, 1998-99, Report 955, November 2001
Author: Consumer Expenditure Survey
Author: Measuring What We Spend
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309265789
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Consumer Expenditure (CE) surveys are the only source of information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes in the United States, as well as the characteristics of those consumers. The CE consists of two separate surveys: (1) a national sample of households interviewed five times at three-month intervals; and (2) a separate national sample of households that complete two consecutive one-week expenditure diaries. For more than 40 years, these surveys, the responsibility of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), have been the principal source of knowledge about changing patterns of consumer spending in the U.S. population. In February 2009, BLS initiated the Gemini Project, the aim of which is to redesign the CE surveys to improve data quality through a verifiable reduction in measurement error with a particular focus on underreporting. The Gemini Project initiated a series of information-gathering meetings, conference sessions, forums, and workshops to identify appropriate strategies for improving CE data quality. As part of this effort, BLS requested the National Research Council's Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) to convene an expert panel to build on the Gemini Project by conducting further investigations and proposing redesign options for the CE surveys. The charge to the Panel on Redesigning the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys includes reviewing the output of a Gemini-convened data user needs forum and methods workshop and convening its own household survey producers workshop to obtain further input. In addition, the panel was tasked to commission options from contractors for consideration in recommending possible redesigns. The panel was further asked by BLS to create potential redesigns that would put a greater emphasis on proactive data collection to improve the measurement of consumer expenditures. Measuring What We Spend summarizes the deliberations and activities of the panel, discusses the conclusions about the uses of the CE surveys and why a redesign is needed, as well as recommendations for the future.
Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures
Author: Christopher D. CarrollPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022612665X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys of consumer expenditures, with the goal of better capturing economic heterogeneity. This is an appropriate time to examine the way consumer expenditures are currently measured, and the challenges and opportunities that alternative approaches might present. Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures begins with a comprehensive review of current methodologies for collecting consumer expenditure data. Subsequent chapters highlight the range of different objectives that expenditure surveys may satisfy, compare the data available from consumer expenditure surveys with that available from other sources, and describe how the United States’s current survey practices compare with those in other nations.
Data Collections from the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
Author: Consumer Expenditures and Income
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Profile of the Nation
Author: Information PlusPublisher: Information Plus
ISBN: 9780787675226
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Measuring Food Security Using Household Expenditure Surveys
Author: Lisa C. SmithPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896297675
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The Analysis of Household Surveys
Author: Angus DeatonPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780801852541
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Using data from several countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Thailand, this book analyzes household survey data from developing countries and illustrates how such data can be used to cast light on a range of short-term and long-term policy issues.