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    • Consumer Expenditure Survey

    Metadata Updated: May 16, 2022

    The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States. The CE program provides these data in tables, LABSTAT database, news releases, reports, and public use microdata files.

    CE data are collected by the Census Bureau for BLS in two surveys, the Interview Survey for major and/or recurring items and the Diary Survey for more minor or frequently purchased items. CE data are primarily used to revise the relative importance of goods and services in the market basket of the Consumer Price Index. The CE is the only Federal household survey to provide information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes.

    For more information and data, visit: https://www.bls.gov/cex/

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date May 16, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 16, 2022

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from BLS Data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 16, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 16, 2022
    Publisher Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier DOL-BLS-3015-01
    Data First Published 2019-09-10
    Data Last Modified 2019
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 012:20
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cx/cx.txt
    Harvest Object Id ed08f9d0-adc2-494f-bc0b-a53a35735ea1
    Harvest Source Id 2762624f-7498-4ed8-a1cf-1c010ca6b6ea
    Harvest Source Title BLS Data
    Homepage URL https://www.bls.gov/cex/
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 012:032
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Department of Labor > Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 05d3a31fb6cad87b1694f55d1f1063d0f5628845
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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