The nonprofit analyzed consumer expenditures surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the years 1996 to 2014.
Michael J. Weiss summarized the latest Consumer Expenditure Survey in the April issue of American Demographics.
The Consumer Expenditure Survey, prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offers a window onto the tax burdens of families at different incomes.
The figures from the Consumer Expenditure Survey provide a rough estimate of tax burdens, since people do not always report incomes accurately.
Just 43percentt of the lowest fifth of earners were homeowners, according to the expenditure survey, compared with 88percentt of the highest fifth.
In the New York metropolitan statistical area -- which includes New York City, Westchester, Long Island, most of northern and central New Jersey, and southwestern Connecticut -- households spent an average of $1,835 annually on entertainment in 1997-98, according to the Consumer Expenditure Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Although it is easy simply to mock somebody else's idea of fun, the Bureau of Labor Statistics contends that it has valid reasons for each omission from the Consumer Expenditure Survey's entertainment category.
Daniel T. Slesnick, an economist at the University of Texas, has tested this approach using figures that he obtained from the Department of Labor's Consumer Expenditure Survey, which tracks the buying habits of thousands of American families.
French speaking families in Quebec were 19% less likely to eat fast food compared with those living in Ontario and spent 46% less on fast food, according to a household expenditure survey in 2007.
Other breaches reported by the ABS to the privacy commissioner include: An interviewer who lost a folder containing summary details from a participant in the household income and expenditure survey in October 2015.
