DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08598.v1
title: Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1982-1983: Interview 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 quarterly Interview Survey component of the 
 CES was designed to gather data on major items of expense, household 
 characteristics, and income. Expenditures examined in this survey are 
 those which respondents could be expected to recall fairly accurately 
 for three months or longer. Consumer units, which are roughly 
 equivalent to households, are interviewed once every three months over 
 a 15-month period. During the fifth and final interview, an annual 
 supplement is used to generate a financial profile of the household as 
 a whole. Included in this profile is information on unemployment 
 compensation, alimony and child support, and changes in assets and 
 liabilities. For each quarter of 1982 and 1983 and for the first 
 quarter of 1984 there are four files of data in this collection. The 
 Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income (FMLY) files contain consumer 
 unit characteristics, consumer unit income, characteristics and 
 earnings of the reference person, and characteristics and earnings of 
 the spouse. The Member Characteristics and Income (MEMB) files supply 
 selected characteristics for each consumer unit member, including 
 reference person and spouse. Each record in these files includes three 
 months of data for a consumer unit member. The Detailed Expenditures 
 (MTAB) files furnish monthly data at the Universal Classification Code 
 (UCC) level. In these files expenditures for each consumer unit are 
 classified according to UCC categories and are specified as gifts or 
 non-gifts. The income (ITAB) files contain monthly data for consumer 
 unit characteristics and income at the UCC level. Two additional files, 
 the Publication Aggregate file and the Publication Label file, are 
designed for use with the printed publication based on these data.
description: The CES is based on a national probability sample of 
 households. The sampling frame was generated from the 1970 Census 100 
 percent detail file. The sample design for the Interview Survey 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: 1982 First Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS2: 1982 First Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS3: 1982 First Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS4: 1982 First Quarter: Income
DS5: 1982 Second Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS6: 1982 Second Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS7: 1982 Second Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS8: 1982 Second Quarter: Income
DS9: 1982 Third Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS10: 1982 Third Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS11: 1982 Third Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS12: 1982 Third Quarter: Income
DS13: 1982 Fourth Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS14: 1982 Fourth Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS15: 1982 Fourth Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS16: 1982 Fourth Quarter: Income
DS17: 1983 First Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS18: 1983 First Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS19: 1983 First Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS20: 1983 First Quarter: Income
DS21: 1983 Second Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS22: 1983 Second Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS23: 1983 Second Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS24: 1983 Second Quarter: Income
DS25: 1983 Third Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS26: 1983 Third Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS27: 1983 Third Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS28: 1983 Third Quarter: Income
DS29: 1983 Fourth Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS30: 1983 Fourth Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS31: 1983 Fourth Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS32: 1983 Fourth Quarter: Income
DS33: 1984 First Quarter: Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
DS34: 1984 First Quarter: Member Characteristics and Income
DS35: 1984 First Quarter: Detailed Expenditures
DS36: 1984 First Quarter: Income
DS37: 1982-1983: Publication Aggregate
DS38: 1982-1983: Publication Label
DS39: 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 Interview Survey for 
 1982- 1983 contains data for urban areas only. Codebooks for this data 
collection are machine-readable only.