Column

Each standard table is divided into columns representing subcategories of the standard characteristics.

Item

Demographic characteristic for which data is collected.

Table

The Consumer Expenditure Survey collects data by socioeconomic and demographic characteristic. There are 10 standard tables with 12 standard characteristics including quintiles of income, income before taxes, age of reference person, size of consumer unit, composition of consumer unit, number of earners in consumer unit, housing tenure, race of reference person, type of area, region of residence, occupation of reference person, and origin of reference person.

Last Modified Date: November 01, 2002

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