The Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign initiative

To help mark the Monthly Labor Review's centennial, the editors invited several producers and users of BLS data to take a look back at the last 100 years. This article highlights the past, present, and future of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE), an ongoing federal survey program designed in...

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Published in:Monthly Labor Review 2016-04, Vol.139 (4), p.G1
Main Authors: Safir, Adam, Ryan, Jay, Erhard, Laura, Jilk, Lindsay, Tan, Lucilla
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrator Surveys
Analysis
Charts of accounts
Consumer Economics
Consumer Price Index
Consumer research
Consumer spending
Consumer surveys
Consumers
Consumption
Cost Indexes
Data collection
Data processing
Data quality
Depth interviews
Design
Diaries
Economic aspects
Economic models
Economic Research
Error of Measurement
Expenditures
Family Income
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Health care expenditures
Households
Insurance policies
Interviews
Inventory
Marketing research
Personal grooming
Policy Analysis
Polls & surveys
Proxy reporting
R&D
Research & development
Research and Development
Researchers
Surveys
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Summary:To help mark the Monthly Labor Review's centennial, the editors invited several producers and users of BLS data to take a look back at the last 100 years. This article highlights the past, present, and future of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE), an ongoing federal survey program designed in the 1970s to collect information on spending, income, and household characteristics. This paper also presents an overview of the Gemini Project, which was launched in 2009. The project's objectives are to reduce measurement error, improve overall data quality, enhance the analytic value of the CE data to users, and implement a new design that supports greater operational flexibility to respond to changes in the interviewing environment. This paper discusses the motivation, accomplishments, challenges, and expected benefits of the CE redesign.
ISSN:0098-1818
1937-4658