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Average Annual Expenditures of All Consumer Units by Metropolitan Area: 2004-2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0663)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,

Consumer Expenditures in 2005.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://stats.bls.gov/cex/home.htm

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,

Consumer Expenditures in 2005.

For more information:

http://stats.bls.gov/cex/home.htm

Consumer Expenditure Survey Program

This program consists of two surveys — the quarterly Interview survey and the Diary survey that provide information on the

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The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Headnotes

[In dollars. Metropolitan areas defined June 30, 1983, CMSA=Consolidated
Metropolitan Statistical Area; MSA=Metropolitan Statistical Area;
PMSA=Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area. See text, section 1, and
Appendix II. Based on Consumer Expenditure Survey, integrated data from
the Interview and Diary surveys; see text, section 13, for description.
In interpreting the expenditure data, several factors should be
considered. First the data are averages for the noninstitutional
population. Second, the expenditures reported here are out-of-pocket.
A consumer unit comprises either: (1) all members of a particular household who are related by blood,
marriage, adoption, or other legal arrangements; (2) a person living alone or sharing a household with others
or living as a roomer in a private home or lodging house or in permanent living quarters in a hotel or motel,
but who is financially independent; or (3) two or more persons living together who pool their income to make
joint expenditure decisions. Financial independence is determined by the three major expense categories:
Housing, food, and other living expenses. To be considered financially independent, at least two of the three
major expense categories have to be provided by the respondent]

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Food at home, total Cereal and bakery products Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs Dairy Fruits, vegetables Other food at home Housing, total 1 Shelter Utility, fuel, public services Household operations Housekeeping supllies Household furnishings and equipment Transportation, total 1 Vehicle purchases (net outlay) Gasoline and motor oil Other transportation Public transportation Personal insurance and pensions, total Life and other personal insurance Pensions and Social Security Income before taxes Age of reference person (years) Persons Children under 18 years old Persons 65 years old and over Earners Vehicles
Shelter, total Owned dwellings Rented dwellings Other lodging
Anchorage, Alaska MSA 59427 6412 3713 457 846 437 605 1369 2698 636 18764 11391 7814 2850 727 3228 985 771 2388 1820 12596 6082 2157 3239 1119 3397 3420 615 218 842 440 1227 1853 7187 581 6606 119 71031 45.8 2.5 0.7 0.2 1.5 2.5 71
Atlanta, Georgia MSA 39992 5496 2676 364 750 255 502 804 2820 337 14346 8497 6019 2202 276 3430 717 518 1184 1744 6044 2359 1695 1748 242 1837 2079 397 65 773 142 421 1047 5265 364 4901 1989 59942 45.8 2.5 0.7 0.2 1.3 1.5 72
Baltimore, Maryland MSA 39217 4324 2655 374 737 275 448 820 1670 354 14714 9487 6644 2366 476 2944 614 417 1253 1641 5799 2052 1541 1844 363 2215 1696 507 80 998 219 395 1228 5046 235 4811 1169 63372 51.3 2.3 0.5 0.4 1.2 1.6 69
Boston-Lawrence-Salem, Massachusetts-New .Hampshire CMSA 51679 7223 3977 579 998 410 686 1304 3247 834 17805 11364 7882 2899 583 3169 917 684 1670 1929 8586 3759 1747 2502 579 2624 2347 591 195 1744 287 599 1063 5851 393 5458 2876 67927 48.8 2.4 0.6 0.3 1.3 1.8 64
Chicago-Gary-Lake County, Illinois-Indiana-.Wisconsin
CMSA 54935 6456 3453 473 815 365 609 1192 3002 581 18962 11440 8510 2138 792 3541 1063 792 2124 2318 8875 4013 1754 2464 644 2933 2629 664 162 1456 346 920 2969 5665 384 5282 3189 67726 50.1 2.6 0.7 0.3 1.4 1.8 73
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Consumer Expenditures in 2005.

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0663

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2008

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