The disclosure protection in place meet strict confidentiality requirements set in place by the Census Bureau Disclosure Review Board. The PUMD are the set of Consumer Unit records from both the Interview and Diary Surveys, with disclosure protection enabled so that respondents cannot be identified. To aid in interpreting the CE tables, users may consult the Tables Getting Started Guide.ĬE PUMD enables data users to create custom estimates that are not available through other CE products. Additional detailed tables by demographics are available upon request by contacting the CE program. Users interested in obtaining additional expenditure detail can access the detailed means, variances, and percent reporting tables, which contain the most detailed set of expenditure estimates calculated by the CE. In addition, CE provides tables that cross-tabulate using two characteristics (e.g., age and income) to allow users to further analyze the spending behavior for a particular subset of the population.

Additional CE program publications, documents, and presentations are available via the online CE library.ĬE tables provide estimates by region, income, age, race, education, occupation, and other various household and reference person characteristics. Publications are made available through official BLS series, including the Monthly Labor Review, Beyond the Numbers, Spotlight on Statistics, The Economics Daily, Handbook of Methods, annual reports, and others. These publications are headlined by a news release, which is published once a year and accompanies CE's data release in the fall.

CE provides these expenditure data, along with demographics and income information, in four formats:ĬE publications provide analyses of CE data to help users understand their meaning and the stories that they tell. The CE surveys collect data that fall into one of the following major expenditure categories: Alcoholic beverages, Apparel and services, Cash contributions, Education, Entertainment, Food, Healthcare, Housing, Miscellaneous, Personal care products and services, Personal insurance and pensions, Reading, Tobacco products and smoking supplies, and Transportation.

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