TY - BOOK ID - 136170687 TI - Improving the measurement of consumer expenditures AU - Carroll, Chris AU - Crossley, Thomas F AU - Sabelhaus, John Edward PY - 2015 SN - 022619471X 9780226194714 9780226126654 022612665X PB - Chicago London DB - UniCat KW - Cost and standard of living. KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - consumerism, expenditures, economic activity, wealth, poverty, income inequality, resources, welfare, inflation, public policy, consumption, cost, standard of living, expenditure survey, research, consumer price index, panel data, leisure, labor, household demand, denmark, sweden, reliability, methodology, balance edit approach, saving, aging, payment, habits, budget, technology, quantifiable, nonfiction, sociology, politics, economics, international. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136170687 AB - Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys of consumer expenditures, with the goal of better capturing economic heterogeneity. This is an appropriate time to examine the way consumer expenditures are currently measured, and the challenges and opportunities that alternative approaches might present. Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures begins with a comprehensive review of current methodologies for collecting consumer expenditure data. Subsequent chapters highlight the range of different objectives that expenditure surveys may satisfy, compare the data available from consumer expenditure surveys with that available from other sources, and describe how the United States's current survey practices compare with those in other nations. ER -