The family records data contain consumer unit information on expenditures, income, wealth, and basic household demographics. The member record data contains additional consumer unit member earnings and demographic information.
1985 Q3 and Q4 and 1995 Q3 and Q4 are not available due to a change in the sampling frame.
For each household, the four quarterly records have been merged into an annual record. For example, the 1997:1 files contain the annual expenditures for households that began the survey 1997:1 and combines expenditures reported from 1997:1 - 1997:4. None of the newid variables will match across quarters because each quarter is a completely different sample.
The source data used to create the extracts is available only from the BLS.
Internal users can access this data in a UNIX shell at /homes/data/ces_cbo or on an NBER PC via Network Neighborhood --> NBER --> home --> data --> ces_cbo
Documentation, Variable List, and Sample SAS Files
Documentation -- MS Word | Cexfam.doc |
Documentation -- WordPerfect | Cexfam.wpd |
Documentation -- Adobe PDF | Cexfam.pdf |
Documentation -- Text | Cexfam.txt |
Suggested Variable names & positions | varlist.txt |
Sample SAS Program -- Family Files | cbofam.sas |
Sample SAS Program -- Member Files | cbomemb.sas |
Sample SAS Program -- Merges the member and family files | cbomerge.sas |
FAMILY RECORDS
MEMBER RECORDS
FORTRAN Source Code
The source data used to create the extracts is available from the BLS.
main.f90 | Main Program |
doccex.f90 | Creates 109 income, expenditure, and wealth categories |
cexqtr.f90 | Reads source CEX files (available from the BLS) |
cexfam.f90 | Creates unified family record from cexqtr.f90 output |
create f & m files | Applies attrition adjustment factors to cexfam.f90 output |
inc22 | An input file for doccex.f90 |
con47 | An input file for doccex.f90 |
oth40 | An input file for doccex.f90 |
mapwtv2.txt | Maps CE interviews to calendar years |
cextitle | Contains titles of the 109 CE categories |
Declarations | A module containing program control variables used by many modules |
aggregate | Compares CEX and NIPA aggregates over time |