Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk— Consumer Expenditures

• Consumer expenditures on food in 2011 (06/07/2013)
• Household spending on pets (05/29/2013)
• Expenditures of urban and rural households in 2011 (03/01/2013)
• Consumer Prices, 1913 and 2013 (02/28/2013)
• Travel expenditures during the recent recession, 2005–2011 (01/15/2013)
• The 2012 drought’s impact on grocery prices compared to the 1988 drought (12/04/2012)
• Consumer expenditures by homeowners and renters, 2010 (10/25/2012)
• Consumer expenditures rise in 2011 (09/27/2012)
• Consumer spending patterns, 2008–2010 (10/06/2011)
• Overall consumer expenditures fall in 2010 (09/29/2011)
• Spending on mortgage interest payments and charges decreases from 2007 to 2009 (10/14/2010)
• Spending on housing and transportation falls in 2009 (10/07/2010)
• Consumer out-of-pocket health care expenditures in 2008 (03/25/2010)
• Pay off debt, spend, or save? The 2008 Economic Stimulus Payments (10/23/2009)
• Consumer expenditures in 2008 (10/08/2009)
• Housing expenditures in 2007 (04/27/2009)
• Changes in health care spending patterns of older Americans (01/05/2009)
• Consumer expenditures in 2007 (11/26/2008)
• Energy prices and expenditures in the South, 1984-2006 (05/30/2008)
• Spending on cell phone services now almost the same as residential phone services spending (12/18/2007)
• Consumer expenditures in 2006 (10/29/2007)
• Transportation expenditures in 2005 (03/30/2007)
• Housing expenditures in 2005 (03/27/2007)
• Food expenditures in 2005 (03/21/2007)
• Consumer expenditures in 2005 (11/09/2006)
• Asian households and spending on food at home (07/06/2006)
• Spending on apparel over the decades (05/31/2006)
• Spending on food: 1901 versus 2002-03 (05/26/2006)
• Spending on necessities, 1901 and 2002-03 (05/23/2006)
• Spending on food in 2004 (05/16/2006)
• Consumer expenditures in 2004 (11/30/2005)
• Healthcare spending in 2003 (07/08/2005)
• Expenditures on apparel down in 2003 (07/06/2005)
• Disposable income and consumption (05/17/2005)
• Consumer expenditures in 2003 (12/01/2004)
• Spending on food in 2002 (03/16/2004)
• Spending on travel (12/11/2003)
• Spending on entertainment in 2002 (12/05/2003)
• Largest rise in consumer spending in 2002: health care (11/25/2003)
• Travel expenditures by age (11/04/2003)
• Changes in spending patterns among Hispanics (10/28/2003)
• Supply, demand, and consumer gasoline prices (10/08/2003)
• Retirement expenditures for Whites, Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin (08/07/2003)
• Out-of-pocket medical spending: fee-for-service vs. HMO coverage (07/09/2003)
• Entertainment expenditures, 2000 (07/02/2003)
• Spending on necessities, 2000 (06/24/2003)
• Vehicle acquisition by age (06/23/2003)
• Larger rise in spending on housing in 2001 (06/02/2003)
• Spending on food—at home and away (05/22/2003)
• Consumer-related jobs most important to farming and nondurables among goods producers (01/10/2003)
• Consumer spending and job growth (01/09/2003)
• Consumer health care spending in 2001 (12/10/2002)
• Spending drops on apparel in 2001 (12/04/2002)
• Singles’ similar purchasing probabilities (10/18/2002)
• Homeownership highest in Midwest and South (07/18/2002)
• Most poor consumers are single individuals (07/08/2002)
• Small rise in spending on food away from home in 2000 (05/30/2002)
• Elderly spend greatest share on housing (05/28/2002)
• Spending drops on entertainment, pensions and insurance (12/28/2001)
• Slower rise in out-of-pocket health care spending in 1999 (07/06/2001)
• Consumers spend more on apparel in 1999 (06/28/2001)
• Single parents allot higher share of spending to necessities in 1998 (06/19/2001)
• Consumers spend more in all categories in 1999 (01/02/2001)
• Consumer expenditures rise 4.2 percent in 1999 (12/22/2000)
• Teens with jobs—where does the money go? (11/01/2000)
• 65-and-over group gives most (09/25/2000)
• Food stamp households budget more of spending on basics (09/13/2000)
• Retirees spending more on health insurance (07/13/2000)
• Singles eat out more (07/11/2000)
• Public assistance and family characteristics (07/05/2000)
• Income and meals away from home (07/03/2000)
• Assistance recipients spend bigger share on basics (06/29/2000)
• Let’s do lunch (06/28/2000)
• More seniors are mortgage free (06/27/2000)
• Consumers spend more on food away from home (04/07/2000)
• Distribution of consumer expenditures in 1998 (03/30/2000)
• Consumer expenditures rise modestly in 1998 (03/28/2000)
• Spending on food away from home up by 5.7 percent in 1998 (11/19/1999)
• Income and public transportation expenditures (10/08/1999)
• Mass transit and public transportation expenditures (10/01/1999)
• Airfare dominates public transportation expenditures (09/27/1999)
• Transportation the largest piece of pleasure travel spending (09/13/1999)
• Food, clothing, and shelter see different historical spending patterns (08/31/1999)
• Comparing food expenditures by income group (08/25/1999)
• Health insurance now accounts for biggest share of health care dollar (08/23/1999)
• Pension expenditures drop for all except highest income group (08/10/1999)
• How leased and owned vehicles stack up (08/09/1999)
• Consumers pay more for desired features (05/28/1999)
• Apparel spending down in 1997 (04/27/1999)
• Entertainment spending declines in 1997 (04/20/1999)
• Computer ownership up sharply in the 1990s (04/05/1999)
• Expenditures for housing, personal insurance rise fastest in 1997 (04/01/1999)
• Transportation spending brakes in 1997 (03/23/1999)
• Medical care spending climbs again in 1997 (03/16/1999)
• Spending on food differs by gender (03/09/1999)
• Expenditures on frozen foods, meat change considerably over 12-year period (02/26/1999)
• Consumer expenditures rise 3.0 percent in 1997 (12/24/1998)
• High income households allocate smaller expenditure shares to necessities (12/17/1998)
• Homeowner expenditures take more out of budgets in Northeast and West (12/15/1998)
• Higher share of consumer expenditures going to homeowner expenses (12/08/1998)
• Consumer expenditure rise largely attributable to discretionary spending (10/26/1998)
• Consumer expenditures rise at highest rate since 1989 (10/16/1998)