100 Years of U.S. Consumer Spending
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Consumption (Economics) |
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Consumption (Economics) |
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 69 |
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ISBN | : 1437982026 |
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Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Consumption (Economics) |
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Author | : Michael Lewis Dolfman |
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Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Consumption (Economics) |
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Author | : Christopher D. Carroll |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022612665X |
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.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309265789 |
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.
Author | : Patrick J. Purcell |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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The population of the United States is growing older. Because of the ageing of the population and the decline in income that occurs when people retire, both the amount and the composition of spending by American households could change substantially as the 76 million members of the baby boom generation reach retirement age. This book presents data on spending by Americans aged 55 and older collected by the U S Department of Labor through its Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES). From 1985 to 2005, the average annual expenditures of older Americans rose along with their incomes, and the distribution of spending among expenditure categories changed. These changes were the result of changing tastes and preferences among consumers and differences in the rates of price increase among various classes of goods and services.
Author | : Margaret Ambry |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Janet Heslop |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Consumers |
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Author | : Geoffrey Miller |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780670020621 |
Explores how evolutionary psychology has begun to identify the prehistoric origins of human behavior and discusses how those discoveries have influenced the way consumer spending is viewed and controlled by companies, retailers, and marketers.