100 Years of U.S. Consumer Spending: Data for the Nation, New York City, and BostonU.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2006 - Consumption (Economics) - 71 pages With information on the characteristics of households, the survey documents the spending patterns and economic status of American families. The authors use consumer expenditure data longitudinally and draw on information from decennial census reports to present a 100-year history of significant changes in consumer spending, economic status, and family demographics in the country as a whole, as well as in New York City and Boston. |
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$0 Average household 1950 Average family Alcoholic beverages average Boston Average family income Average household expenditures Average household income average U.S. family average U.S. household Boston families Boston households Bostonians Bureau of Labor cent Chart City and Boston City families allotted clothing Consumer Expenditure Survey creased decline decreased demographic indicators Economic and demographic Expenditures Shares Expenditures fami families allocated family size 1960 family spending foreign born grade education household allotted household income 1901 household operations household spending housing units increased Itemized expenditures Labor Statistics married couples median age million non-necessities 1950 percent of families percent of households Percent of whites Percent of women percent recorded population SOURCES reading and education Retail prices share for non-necessities Shares Expenditures Shares spending for food Statistical Abstract total spending transportation U.S. Bureau U.S. Census Bureau U.S. population United States 1901 whites in population women in workforce York City Boston York City families Yorkers