DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08599.v1
title: Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1982-1983: Diary Survey
title: Version 1

description: The ongoing Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) provides 
 detailed information on income and expenditures and also furnishes the 
 Bureau of Labor Statistics with data needed to maintain and review the 
 Consumer Price Index. The Diary, or recordkeeping, component of the CES 
 contains expenditure data for small items purchased on a daily or 
 weekly basis. Survey participants from consumer units, which are 
 roughly equivalent to households, keep daily expense records which 
 itemize all purchases made during a two-week period. Expenditures 
 focused on include small, frequently purchased items such as food, 
 beverages, food consumed away from home, gasoline, housekeeping 
 supplies, nonprescription drugs and medical supplies, and personal care 
 products and services. Three types of files for each quarter of 1982 
 and 1983 are supplied in this collection. The Consumer Unit 
 Characteristics and Income files (FMLY) contain consumer unit 
 characteristics, consumer unit income, characteristics and earnings of 
 the reference person, and characteristics and earnings of the spouse. 
 The Member Characteristics (MEMB) files present selected 
 characteristics for each consumer unit member, including reference 
 person and spouse, and the Detailed Expenditures (EXPN) files contain 
 monthly expenditure data at the Universal Classification Code (UCC) 
level.
description: This survey is based on a national probability sample of 
 households. The sampling frame was generated from the 1970 Census 100 
 Percent Detail File. Each selected sample unit is requested to keep two 
 one-week diaries of expenditures over consecutive weeks. The earliest 
 possible day for placing a diary with a household is predesignated so 
 that each day of the week has an equal chance to start the reference 
 week, and the diaries are evenly spaced throughout the year. During the 
 last six weeks of the year, the diary sample is supplemented to twice 
 its normal size to increase the reportings of types of expenditures 
unique to the holiday season.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: 1982 First Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS2: 1982 First Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS3: 1982 First Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS4: 1982 Second Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS5: 1982 Second Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS6: 1982 Second Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS7: 1982 Third Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS8: 1982 Third Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS9: 1982 Third Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS10: 1982 Fourth Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS11: 1982 Fourth Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS12: 1982 Fourth Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS13: 1983 First Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS14: 1983 First Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS15: 1983 First Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS16: 1983 Second Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS17: 1983 Second Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS18: 1983 Second Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS19: 1983 Third Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS20: 1983 Third Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS21: 1983 Third Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS22: 1983 Fourth Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS23: 1983 Fourth Quarter: Member Characteristics
DS24: 1983 Fourth Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS25: 1982-1983: Universal Classi- fication Codes and Titles
description: Civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United 
States living in urban areas.
description: Rural data collection for this survey was discontinued 
 in 1981 and not resumed until 1984. Thus, the Diary Survey for 
 1982-1983 contains only urban data. Codebooks for this data collection 
are machine-readable only.