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Average Annual Expenditures of all Consumer Units by Region and Size of Unit: 2000 to 2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0665)

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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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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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Credits

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; and earlier reports.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,

Consumer Expenditures in 2005; and earlier reports.

For more information:

http://www.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 …

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File structure

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.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Components of income and taxes are derived from “complete income reporters” only.
  2. Data are likely to have large sampling errors
  3. Prior to 2000, gifts of alcoholic, personal care products and services, and reading maerials were included in “All other gifts.”

Headnotes

[In dollars. Based on Consumer Expenditure Survey. Data are averages
for the noninstitutional population. 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]

Shape

table: [195, 20]

Snippet

Northeast Midwest South West One person Two or more persons Two persons Three persons Four persons Five or more persons
Number of consumer units (1,000) 109367 110339 112108 115356 116282 117356 22356 27005 42120 25875 34339 83017 37489 18451 15807 11270
Income before taxes 1 44649 47507 49430 51128 54453 58712 63068 56606 53311 65938 30290 70468 62195 74069 78183 81275
Income after taxes 1 41532 44587 46934 48596 52287 56304 60908 54280 51046 62999 28864 67655 59327 71068 75328 79005
Age of reference person (in years) 48.2 48.1 48.1 48.4 48.5 48.6 50.1 48.5 48.7 47.3 52.8 46.9 52.8 43.6 40.9 40.9
Average number in consumer unit:
Persons 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.6 1 3.1 2 3 4 5.7
Children under 18 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 (NA) 0.9 0.1 0.8 1.6 2.8
Persons 65 and over 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1
20=. … snip
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Consumer Expenditures in 2005; and earlier reports.

Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.
  • (Z) Value less than 0.5

Tablenum

0665

Year

2008

History

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