Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures

ed. by Christopher D. Carroll, Thomas F. Crossley, John Sabelhaus

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

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Year of publication:	[2015]
Other Persons:	Angrisani, Marco (contributor) ; Ash, Stephen (contributor) ; Attanasio, Orazio (contributor) ; Barrett, Garry (contributor) ; Bee, Adam (contributor) ; Blair, Caitlin (contributor) ; Blow, Laura (contributor) ; Carroll, Chris (contributor) ; Carroll, Chris (ed.) ; Crossley, Thomas F. (contributor) ; Crossley, Thomas F. (ed.) ; Sabelhaus, John (ed.)
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Privater Konsum \| Private consumption \| Messung \| Measurement \| Erhebungstechnik \| Data collection method
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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (528 p.) 2 halftones, 97 line drawings, 117 tables
Series:	National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; 74
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Frontmatter Contents Prefatory Note Introduction I. What Do We Already Know about Collecting Household Expenditure Data? 1. Asking Households about Expenditures What Have We Learned? II. Goals for the Expenditure Survey Redesign 2. Constructing a PCE- Weighted Consumer Price Index 3. The Benefits of Panel Data in Consumer Expenditure Surveys 4. The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in the United States, 1980–2010 5. Using the CE to Model Household Demand III. Evaluating the Existing CE Survey 6. Understanding the Relationship 7. The Validity of Consumption Data 8. Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income? 9. A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods IV. Alternative Approaches to Data Collection 10. Measuring the Accuracy of Survey Responses Using Administrative Register Data 11. Judging the Quality of Survey Data by Comparison with “Truth” as Measured by Administrative Records 12. Exploring a Balance Edit Approach in the Consumer Expenditure Quarterly Interview Survey 13. Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey 14. Wealth Dynamics and Active Saving at Older Ages 15. Measuring Household Spending and Payment Habits 16. The Potential Use of In- Home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys Contributors Author Index Subject Index In English
ISBN:	978-0-226-19471-4 ; 978-0-226-12665-4
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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