DOI: 10.3886/icpsr09851.v1
title: Consumer Expenditure Surveys, 1980-1989: Interview Surveys, for Household-Level Analysis
title: Version 1

description: This data collection constitutes a reorganization of data 
 from the Interview Survey component of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys 
 produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the years 
 1980-1989. The Interview Surveys collect data on the expenditures, 
 household characteristics, and income of a sample of consumer units. 
 Interviews are conducted quarterly for a period of 15 months. While the 
 original files are ordered by calendar quarter and calendar month, the 
 reorganized files in this collection use the consumer unit (equivalent 
 to a family or household) as the unit of analysis. The reorganization 
 facilitates analysis of expenditure patterns of individual consumer 
 units. Two kinds of files are presented in this collection: detailed 
 and summary. The detailed files, Consumer Unit (CU), BLS Aggregated 
 Data (BLS), Member Data (MEM), and Expenditure Tabulations (MT) files, 
 retain almost all of the information from the original Interview Survey 
 files (FMLY, MEMB, and MTAB). The detailed files are named according to 
 the calendar year in which the consumer unit's fifth interview took 
 place. Expenditures are expressed as monthly or quarterly totals in 472 
 categories. The summary files, Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by 
 Consumer Price Index Aggregation (SUMQ), Summary (SUMMARY), and 
 Aggregated Quarterly Expenditures, 1984-1989 (BLSSUM), aggregate 
 expenditures by type and by quarter or year. The SUMQ files (one for 
 each year) contain information on expenditures aggregated over 
 interview quarters in approximately 70 aggregate categories. The 
 SUMMARY file contains annual expenditures in the same 70 categories, 
 along with selected demographic variables, for those consumer units 
 that participated in the survey for a full year. For convenience, two 
 files containing United States city average Consumer Price Indices 
 corresponding to the aggregate goods categories by month and by year 
 are provided. The BLSSUM file contains quarterly summed expenditures 
 for all consumer units from 1984 on, using the aggregation scheme 
followed by the BLS files.
description: The Consumer Expenditure Survey is based on a national 
 probability sample of households. Households are selected from primary 
 sampling units (PSUs), which consist of counties (or parts thereof), 
 groups of counties, or independent cities. The set of sample PSUs used 
 for the survey is composed of 101 areas, of which 85 urban areas have 
 also been selected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Consumer 
 Price Index program. The sampling frame from which housing units were 
 selected was generated from the 1980 Census 100-percent detail file, 
 augmented by new construction permits and coverage improvement 
 techniques used to eliminate recognized deficiencies in that census. 
 The sample design is a rotating panel survey in which one-fifth of the 
 sample is dropped and a new group added each quarter. Each panel is 
 interviewed for five consecutive quarters and then dropped from the 
survey.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Consumer Unit File, 1980
DS2: Consumer Unit File, 1981
DS3: Consumer Unit File, 1982
DS4: Consumer Unit File, 1983
DS5: Consumer Unit File, 1984
DS6: Consumer Unit File, 1985
DS7: Consumer Unit File, 1986
DS8: Consumer Unit File, 1987
DS9: Consumer Unit File, 1988
DS10: Consumer Unit File, 1989
DS11: Aggregated Quarterly Expenditures, 1984-1989
DS12: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1980
DS13: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1981
DS14: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1982
DS15: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1983
DS16: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1984
DS17: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1985
DS18: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1986
DS19: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1987
DS20: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1988
DS21: Bureau of Labor Statistics Aggregated Data, 1989
DS22: Member Data, 1980
DS23: Member Data, 1981
DS24: Member Data, 1982
DS25: Member Data, 1983
DS26: Member Data, 1984
DS27: Member Data, 1985
DS28: Member Data, 1986
DS29: Member Data, 1987
DS30: Member Data, 1988
DS31: Member Data, 1989
DS32: Expenditure Tabulations, 1980
DS33: Expenditure Tabulations, 1981
DS34: Expenditure Tabulations, 1982
DS35: Expenditure Tabulations, 1983
DS36: Expenditure Tabulations, 1984
DS37: Expenditure Tabulations, 1985
DS38: Expenditure Tabulations, 1986
DS39: Expenditure Tabulations, 1987
DS40: Expenditure Tabulations, 1988
DS41: Expenditure Tabulations, 1989
DS42: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1980
DS43: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1981
DS44: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1982
DS45: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1983
DS46: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1984
DS47: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1985
DS48: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1986
DS49: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1987
DS50: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1988
DS51: Sum of Quarterly Expenditures by Consumer Price Index Aggregation, 1989
DS52: Summary File, Household Demographics and Aggregate Annual Expenditures
DS53: Consumer Price Indices for Selected Goods, January 1979-October 1990
DS54: Consumer Price Indices, Twelve-Month Moving Averages for Selected Goods
DS55: Codebook for All Parts
DS56: SAS Data Definition Statements for All Parts
DS57: Map of Old and New 1986 Consumer Unit Identifiers
description: Total civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the 
United States.