Adjusting for personal consumption and support factors

• Author: Stanley P. Stephenson/David A. Macpherson
• Pages: 161-174

ADJUSTING FOR PERSONAL

CONSUMPTION/SUPPORT

5-1

CHAPTER 5

ADJUSTING FOR

PERSONAL CONSUMPTION

AND SUPPORT FACTORS

§500 IN GENERAL

§510 DEFINING PERSONAL CONSUMPTION AND SUPPORT FACTORS

§511 Family Lifetime Consumption Patterns

§520 HISTORICAL STUDIES OF CONSUMPTION

§530 SUPPORT OR CONSUMPTION FACTORS

§531 When to Make the Adjustment

§532 Unusual Circumstances

§533 Consumption for the Single Person

Table 5-1: Expenditures by Income and Consumer Unit Size

§540 PERSONAL AND INDIVISIBLE CONSUMPTION BY FAMILY SIZE AND INCOME

Table 5-2: Consumption by Household Members, by Number of Persons in Household and

Income Levels — Savings Excluded as Consumption Item

Table 5-3: Log Regression of Household Income on Family Member Consumption

§541 Personal Consumption by Husbands and Wives

Table 5-4: Personal Consumption Husband, Wife, No Children by Work Status

Table 5-5: Personal Consumption Husband, Wife, Children by Work Status