We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the … 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the …

households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household ….For some we have the original household data, but in most cases we have tables by income group. One by-product of this work is …