U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Consumer Expenditure Survey

Monthly Labor Review Articles by CE Staff and Others Using CE Data

NEW Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users' Workshop, July 2011 (Summary) (PDF)
- by Geoffrey Paulin
- April 2012

Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 2010 (PDF)
- by Geoffrey Paulin
- April 2011

Household expenditures on children, 2007–08 (PDF)
- by Megumi Omori
- September 2010

Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users’ Workshop, July 2009 (PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- April 2010

Out-of-pocket health care expenditures: a comparison (PDF)
- by Ann C. Foster
- February 2010

New expenditure data in the PSID: comparisons with the CE (PDF)
- by Geng Li, Robert F. Schoeni, Sheldon Danziger, and Kerwin Kofi Charles
- February 2010

Household liability data in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (Summary) (PDF)
- by Kathleen W. Johnson and Geng Li
- December 2009

The impact of income imputation in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (PDF)
- by Bill Passero
- August 2009

Expenditure patterns of young single adults: two recent generations compared (PDF)
- by Geoffrey Paulin
- December 2008

Household food expenditure patterns: a cluster analysis (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Jessie X. Fan, Barbara B. Brown, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Ken R. Smith, and Cathleen D. Zick
- April 2007

Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Abby L. Duly, Jeffrey A. Harris, Ara M. Khatchadourian, Rozi T. Ulics, and Melissa C. Wolter
- December 2006

The CE and the PCE: a comparison (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Thesia I. Garner, George Janini, William Passero, Laura Paszkiewicz, and Mark Vendemia
- September 2006

Food-at-home expenditures of Asian households (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Shiao-Lin Shirley Tsai and Lucilla Tan
- June 2006

Economic inequality through the prisms of income and consumption (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by David S. Johnson, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Barbara Boyle Torrey
- April 2005

A changing market: expenditures by Hispanic consumers, revisited (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
(Additional Tables PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- August 2003

Retirement expenditures for Whites, Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Pierre Bahizi
- June 2003

Consumer expenditures for selected items, 1999 and 2000 (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Abby Duly, George Janini, Eric J. Keil, Laura Paszkiewicz, Geoffrey D. Paulin, and Neil Tseng
- May 2003

Health care and prescription drug spending by seniors (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Jessie X. Fan, Deanna L. Sharpe, and Goog-Soog Hong
- March 2003

Experimental poverty measures: accounting for medical expenditures (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Kathleen Short and Thesia I. Garner
- August 2002

Expenditures of single parents: how does gender figure in? (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
(Additional Tables PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin and Yoon G. Lee
- July 2002

Planning ahead: consumer expenditure patterns in retirement (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
(Additional Tables PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin and Abby L. Duly
- July 2002

Expenditures of college-age students and nonstudents (Research summary)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- July 2001

A century of family budgets in the United States (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by David S. Johnson, John M. Rogers, and Lucilla Tan
- May 2001

Teenagers: employment and contributions to family spending (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by David S. Johnson and Mark Lino
- September 2000

Expenditure patterns of older Americans, 1984-97 (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- May 2000

Spending patterns of public-assisted families (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Lucilla Tan
- May 2000

Let's do lunch: expenditures on meals away from home (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- May 2000

The changing food-at-home budget: 1980 and 1992 compared (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- December 1998

A growing market: expenditures by Hispanic consumers (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
(Additional Tables PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- March 1998

Experimental poverty measurement for the 1990s (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Thesia I. Garner, Kathleen Short,Stephanie Shipp, Charles Nelson, and Geoffrey D. Paulin
- March 1998

Making it on their own: the baby-boom meets generation X (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin and Brian Riordan
- February 1998

Spending patterns of families receiving public assistance (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by William D. Passero
- April 1996

Health insurance coverage for families with children (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin and Elizabeth M. Dietz
- August 1995

The effects of health insurance on consumer spending (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF 1,339K)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin and Wolf D. Weber
- March 1995

Imputing income in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin and David L. Ferraro
- December 1994

CE data: quintiles of income versus quintiles of outlays (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by John M. Rogers and Maureen B. Gray
- December 1994

Seasonal adjustment of quarterly consumer expenditure series (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Thomas G. Moehrle
- December 1994

The Consumer Expenditure Survey: a comparative analysis (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by E. Raphael Branch
- December 1994

How does rental assistance influence spending behavior? (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Robert Cage
- May 1994

Spending by older consumers: 1980 and 1990 compared (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Pamela B. Hitschler
- May 1993

Consumer spending on durables and services in the 1980's (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Maureen Boyle Gray
- May 1992

Consumer expenditures in travel, 1980-87 (Research summary)
- by Geoffrey D. Paulin
- June 1990

Spending patterns of elderly workers and nonworkers (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Thomas Moehrle
- May 1990

How family spending has changed in the U.S. (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Eva Jacobs and Stephanie Shipp
- March 1990

Spending differences across occupational fields (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Robert Cage
- December 1989

Consumer expenditures in different-size cities (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Susan M. Banta
- December 1989

Families of working wives spending more on services, nondurables (Abstract) (Excerpt) (PDF)
- by Eva Jacobs, Stephanie Shipp and Gregory Brown
- February 1989

Last Modified Date: May 11, 2012