household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics—the Current Population Survey (CPS), the … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX)—and find that the answers depend on …

summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …

such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …

Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time … survey participation, in particular the propensity of people who do volunteer work to respond to surveys at higher rates than … data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) -- the sample for which is drawn from Current Population Survey (CPS …