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 spendingbased measures of poverty and inequality and estimating the effects of fiscal policy.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Carroll, Christopher D. ; Parker, Jonathan A. ; Souleles, Nicholas S.
Publisher:	Frankfurt a. M. : Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Subject:	Panel Data \| Consumer Expenditure Survey \| Survey Methods

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Series:	CFS Working Paper ; 465
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	791647625 [GVK] hdl:10419/100035 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:cfswop:465 [RePEc]
Classification:	E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment ; G1 - General Financial Markets
Source:	EconStor

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