The benefits of panel data in consumer expenditure surveys

This paper explains why the collection of panel (reinterview) data on a comprehensive measure of household expenditures is of great value both for measuring budget shares (the core mission of a Consumer Expenditure survey) and for the most important research and public policy uses to which CE data can be applied, including construction of spendingbased measures of poverty and inequality and estimating the effects of fiscal policy.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Carroll, Christopher D. ; Parker, Jonathan A. ; Souleles, Nicholas S.
Institutions:	Center for Financial Studies
Subject:	Panel Data \| Consumer Expenditure Survey \| Survey Methods

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CFS Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 465
Classification:	E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment ; G1 - General Financial Markets
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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