Improving the measurement of consumer expenditures

摘要: Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys expenditures, with goal better capturing heterogeneity. This is an appropriate time examine way currently measured, challenges opportunities that alternative approaches might present. Improving Measurement Consumer Expenditures begins a comprehensive review current methodologies collecting expenditure data. Subsequent chapters highlight range different objectives may satisfy, compare data available from other sources, describe how States?s survey practices those nations.