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 spending-based measures of poverty and inequality and estimating the effects of fiscal policy.

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Author:Christopher D. Carroll, Jonathan A. Parker, Nicholas S. Souleles
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-346896
URL:https://www.ifk-cfs.de/2479.html
Parent Title (English):Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 465
Series (Serial Number):CFS working paper series (465)
Publisher:Center for Financial Studies
Place of publication:Frankfurt, M.
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2014
Year of first Publication:2014
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/08/04
Tag:Expenditure Survey; Panel Data; Survey Methods
Page Number:31
HeBIS-PPN:350964343
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht