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3 The Current Consumer Expenditure Surveys
3 The Current Consumer Expenditure Surveys
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The Panel on Redesigning the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys identified some limitations associated with these two surveys, and these issues are presented in Chapter 5. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION As noted in Chapter 1, the current CE are based on the design of 1972–1973 predecessor surveys (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2008)
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It also collects average monthly cost of gasoline and the average weekly cost of buying food in a grocery store. Similarly, the Diary survey, with its open listing sheets, collects many larger items identified as appropriate for the Interview survey.
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Design and Implementation of the Interview Survey Sampling Frame and Sample Size for the Interview Survey The sample for the Interview survey begins with a selection of 91 areabased primary sampling units (PSUs)
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By quarter 5 in the rotation, 22 percent of completed interviews were conducted entirely over the telephone, and an additional 50 percent had some data collected over the phone. Whether via personal visit or over the telephone, the field representative uses a computerassisted personal interviewing (CAPI)
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• 3 months' recall • 3 months' recall • 3 months' recall • 3 months' recall Collects: of expenditures of expenditures of expenditures of expenditures • Demographics • Detailed income • Detailed income • Inventory of and asset data Usable sample size Usable sample size and asset data durable goods = 7,100 households = 7,100 households • 1 month's recall Usable sample size Usable sample size of expenditures = 7,100 households = 7,100 households Usable sample size = 7,100 households Operational options: After initial in-person interview, subsequent quarterly interviews may be conducted over the telephone. FIGURE 3-1 Process flow of the Interview survey.
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Proxy reporting is currently used in the CE Interview and Diary surveys, allowing a single household representative to respond for the entire household. The accuracy of data collected from proxies depends heavily on how much the proxy respondent knows about the daily expenditures of all household members.
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FR collects Week 1 diary and places the Week 2 Usable sample size = diary. 273 households Usable sample size = 273 households Operational options: FRs may place both Week 1 and Week 2 diaries on the first visit, so there is not an interim in-person visit from FR.
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The effective sample size for the Diary survey is 7,100 interviewed households, producing approximately 14,200 weekly diaries. The placement of diaries is spread equally over the 52 weeks of the year.
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The CE Diary survey does not currently offer monetary incentives to respondents. COST OF THE CONSUMER EXPENDITURE SURVEYS BLS provided the panel with an internal spreadsheet containing calendar 2010 survey costs.
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civilian noninstitutional population population Information Collected Household and personal Household and personal expenditures: large and expenditures: small, frequently regularly occurring purchased items expenditures via 3+ month recall Sampling Frame 2000 Census 100-Percent 2000 Census 100-Percent Detail File augmented by new Detail File augmented by new construction permits construction permits Sample Design Multistage area probability Multistage area probability sample using 91 Primary sample using 91 Primary Sampling Units; rotating Sampling Units; sampled quarterly panel design for five addresses are equally spread quarters across 52 weeks Mode and Field Personal interview (CAPI) Initial interview and 2 Protocols with decentralized telephone consecutive weekly diaries; interviewing (CATI)
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