CE: CE Consumer expenditure data 2015
In rpms: Recursive Partitioning for Modeling Survey Data

Description Usage Format Sample-design information Location of Consumer Unit Housing and transportation Family Information Primary Earner Information Labor Status of Primary Earner Income Assetts and Liabilities Expenditures Source

A dataset containing consumer unit characteristics, assets and expenditure data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Expenditure Survey public use interview data file.

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A data frame with 68,415 observations on 47 variables:

NEWID: Consumer unit identifying variable, constructed using the first seven digits of NEWID BLS derived
PSU: Primary Sampling Unit code for the 21 biggest clusters
CID: Cluster Identifier for all clusters, (created using PSU, REGION, STATE, and POPSIZE) not part of CE data
QINTRVMO: Month for which data was collected
FINLWT21: Final sample weight to make inference to total population

STATE: State FIPS code
REGION: Region code: 1 Northeast; 2 Midwest; 3 South; 4 West
BLS_URBN: Urban = 1, Rural = 2
POPSIZE: Population size class of PSU: 1-biggest 5-smallest

CUTENURE: Housing tenure: 1 Owned with mortgage; 2 Owned without mortgage 3 Owned mortgage not reported; 4 Rented; 5 Occupied without payment of cash rent; 6 Student housing
ROOMSQ: Number of rooms, including finished living areas and excluding all baths
BATHRMQ: Number of bathrooms
BEDROOMQ: Number of bedrooms
VEHQ: Number of owned vehicles
VEHQL: Number of leased vehicles

FAM_TYPE: CU code based on relationship of members to reference person (children incldue blood-related, step and adopted): 1 Married Couple only; 2 Married Couple, children (oldest < 6 years old); 3 Married Couple, children (oldest 6 to 17 years old); 4 Married Couple, children (oldest > 17 years old); 5 All other Married Couple CUs 6 One parent (male), children (at least one child < 18 years old); 7 One parent (female), children (at least one child < 18 years old); 8 Single consumers; 9 Other CUs
FAM_SIZE: Number of members in CU
PERSLT18: Number of people <18 yrs old
PERSOT64: Number of people >64 yrs old
NO_EARNR: Number of earners

AGE: Age of primary earner
EDUCA: Education level coded: 1 None; 2 1st-8th Grade; 3 some HS; 4 HS; 5 Some college; 6 AA degree; 7 Bachelors degree; 8 Advanced degree
SEX: Gender Code: F (Female); M (Male)
MARITAL: Marital Status Coded: 1 Married; 2 Widowed; 3 Divorced; 4 Separated; 5 Never Married
MEMBRACE: Race code: 1 White; 2 Black; 3 Native American; 4 Asian; 5 Pacific Islander; 6 Multi-race
HORIGIN: Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin? Y (Yes); N (No)
ARM_FORC: Member of armed forces? Y (Yes); N (No)
IN_COLL: Currently enrolled in college? Full (full time); Part (part time); No

EARNER: Earn income: Y (Yes); N (No)
EARNTYPE: 1 Full time all year; 2 Part time all year; 3 Full time part of the year; 2 Part time part of the year;
OCCUCODE: The job in which the member received the most earnings during the past 12 months fits best in the following category: 01 Administrator, manager; 02 Teacher; 03 Professional Administrative support, technical, sales; 04 Administrative support, including clerical; 05 Sales, retail; 06 Sales, business goods and services; 07 Technician; 08 Protective service; 09 Private household service; 10 Other service; 11 Machine operator, assembler, inspector; 12 Transportation operator; 13 Handler, helper, laborer; 14 Mechanic, repairer, precision production; 15 Construction, mining; 16 Farming; 17 Forestry, fishing, grounds-keeping; 18 Armed forces
INCOMEY: Type of employment: 1 An employee of a PRIVATE company, business, or individual 2 A Federal government employee 3 A State government employee 4 A local government employee 5 Self-employed in OWN business, professional practice or farm 6 Working WITHOUT PAY in family business or farm
INCNONWK: Reason did not work during the past 12 months: 1 Retired; 2 Home maker; 3 School; 4 health; 5 Unable to find work; 6 Doing something else

FINCBTAX: Amount of CU income before taxes in past 12 months
SALARYX: Amount of wage or salary income received in past 12 months, before any deductions
SOCRRX: Amount income received from Social Security and Railroad Retirement in past 12 months

IRAX: Total value of all retirement accounts
LIQUIDX: Value of liquid assets
STOCKX: Total value of all directly-held stocks, bonds
STUDNTX: Amount owed on all student loans