Measuring What We Spend: Toward a New Consumer Expenditure Survey - Softcover

National Research Council

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309265754 ISBN 13: 9780309265751

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2013

Synopsis

In 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) initiated the Gemini Project to redesign the consumer expendutures (CE) surveys to improve data quality through reducing overall measurement error with a particular focus on underreporting. As part of that project which has included information-gathering meetings, conference sessions, forums, and workshops BLS requested the National Research Council s Committee on National Statistics to convene a panel to provide expert scientific advice on redesign options for the CE surveys.

The Panel on Redesigning the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys undertook a review of information from Gemini-sponsored forums on data user needs and statistical methods. The panel also convened a separate workshop on innovative survey designs and commissioned outside analyses of possible redesigns of the CE. Measuring What We Spend is a thorough review of a wide range of options for the redesign of the CE surveys. It presents the panel s conclusions about the many possible uses of the CE surveys and why a redesign is needed, as well as recommendations for next steps to improve this important source of information on U.S. economic activity.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309265754
• ISBN 13: 9780309265751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Don A. Dillman, Carol C. House