Household Spending: Who Spends How Much on What

If Americans buy it, you can probably find out how much they’re spending on it in the eighth edition of Household Spending: Who Spends How Much on What. Widely praised when the first edition appeared in 1991, Household Spending gives you dollar-for-dollar answers to the questions Who buys? What do they buy? How much do they spend? Based on unpublished data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Expenditure Survey, Household Spending examines how much Americans spend on hundreds of products and services by the demographics that count – age, income, type of household, region of residence, race, and Hispanic origin. The products and services are organized into chapters on apparel, entertainment, financial, food and alcohol, gifts, health care, home improvement and utilities, household furnishings, transportation, personal care, reading, education, and tobacco. Because there is a two-year lag time between data collection and publication, the data in Household Spending are from 2001.