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• Banking on Housing; Spending the Home, 2004-2007
  Documents the processes by which housing equity ebbs and flows between bricks & mortar and other goods & services. Options include debt consolidation & the purchase of safety net services, as well as investments to add value and/or to create living spaces. Equally the equity in homes may be used to buy education, lifestyles, time, or a range of other 'things'. Casts light on the use of housing wealth in consumption. Data comprised of discussions about housing wealth, mortgage debt, and mortgage equity withdrawal. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

  Sample Size: 119 home buyers in England. These mortgage holders were quota sampled from 2 previous studies to secure a spread of levels of unmortgaged housing equity and a range of mortgage types.

• Branded Consumption and Social Identification: Young People and Alcohol Study, 2006-2007
  This qualitative dataset examines young people's relationship with alcohol and drinking practices in England. Investigated the meanings that young people associate with drinking and how contemporary forms of alcohol marketing operate to constitute alcohol brands as discursive resources that young people can draw on. Examined: (a) the role that branding and marketing practices play in shaping young adults identity practices around alcohol and the meanings that they associate with alcohol consumption; (b) how young people's drinking practices and the meanings they associated with alcohol consumption differed in 3 geographical contexts: a major metropolitan conurbation in the West Midlands, a smaller semi-rural market town and a seaside location in the West Country; how alcohol-related practices are organised around gender, class and/or ethnicity; (d) The role that drinking stories and other collective cultural practices (e.g. drinking games) play in the constitution of young adult's social and personal identities. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

  Sample Size: 89 people in 16 focus groups; 8 semi-structured individual interviews

• Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) (1986+)
  National sample survey that collects information on the stock of U.S. commercial buildings, their energy-related building characteristics, and their energy consumption and expenditures. Commercial buildings include all buildings in which at least half of the floorspace is used for a purpose that is not residential, industrial, or agricultural, so they include building types that might not traditionally be considered "commercial," such as schools, correctional institutions, and buildings used for religious worship.

• Compact disc sales data, 1997-2002
  Nielsen Soundscan compact disc sales data for 1997 to 2002, broken out by metropolitan area and distribution type (Chain vs.Independent vs. mass merchant vs. non-traditional venue).

• Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) Series (1960-1961, 1972-1973, 1980+)
  Formerly called the Survey of Consumer Expenditures. Provides a continuous flow of information on the buying habits of American consumers and also furnishes data to support periodic revisions of the Consumer Price Index. The unit of analysis is the consumer unit, consisting of all members of a particular housing unit who are related by blood, marriage, adoption, or some other legal arrangement. Consumer unit determination for unrelated persons is based on financial independence. 2007 is available on the DSS Server.

• Electric Utility Rate Demonstration Project (1975-1980)
  Series of studies on customer response to utility regulatory pricing early in 1975. The project consists of a 5-part study for Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

• Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (1984, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000-2005)
  Nationally representative survey of Mexican household income and expenditures.

• Ethiopia Rural Household Survey Dataset, 1989-1997 (ERHS)
  Longitudinal household data set covering households in a number of villages in rural Ethiopia. In 1989, IFPRI conducted a survey in seven Peasant Associations located in the regions Amhara, Oromiya and the Southern Ethiopian People's Association. Civil conflict prevented survey work from being undertaken in Tigray. Household data were collected in order to study the response of households to food crises. Collected consumption, asset and income data on about 450 households. In 1994, the survey was expanded to cover 15 villages across the country. An additional round was conducted in late 1994, with further rounds in 1995 and 1997. The fourth round of the survey also included a community level survey which part of this dataset. The 9 new villages led the sample to grow to 1477 households. The 9 additional communities were selected to account for the diversity in the farming systems in the country, including the grain-plough areas of the Northern and Central highlands, the enset-growing areas and the sorghum-hoe areas. Topics addressed in the survey include household characteristics, agriculture and livestock information, food consumption, health, women's activities, as well as community level data on electricity and water, sewage and toilet facilities, health services, education, NGO activity, migration, wages, and production and marketing.

• Expenditure and Food Survey (2001+)
  Continues the National Food Survey and the Family Expenditure Survey. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Family Expenditure Survey (1982-2001)
  Continuous survey with an annual sample of around 10,000 households (about 1 in 2000 of all United Kingdom households) about 60% of which co-operate by providing the interviewers with information about the household, household and personal incomes, certain payments that recur regularly (eg rent, gas and electricity bills, telephone accounts, insurances, season tickets and hire purchase payments) and in maintaining a detailed expenditure record for 14 consecutive days. Continued by the Expenditure and Food Survey. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Family income and expenditure survey [Philippines] (1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000)
  Data gathered in the survey include sources of income in cash and in kind and the level of consumption by item of expenditure. Related information such as family size, number of family members employed for pay or profit (wage/salary or own-account worker), occupation, age and educational attainment of household head, and housing characteristics were also included. The survey involved the interview of a national sample of about 41,000 sample households deemed sufficient to provide reliable estimates of income and expenditure levels for each province of the country, key cities and key municipalities. The sample households covered in the survey were the same sample households interviewed in the July 1997 and January 1998 rounds of the Labor Force Survey (LFS).

• Health New Zealand Database on Tobacco Consumption and its determinants in 23 OECD Countries, 1960-2000
  Provides information on consumption and warning labels for cigarettes and tobacco.

• Indonesia Family Life Survey (1993-2008)
  Designed to provide data for studying economic behaviors and outcomes. Contains a wealth of information collected at the individual and household levels, including multiple indicators of economic well-being (consumption, income, and assets); education, migration, and labor market outcomes; marriage, fertility, and contraceptive use; health status, use of health care, and health insurance; relationships among coresident and non-coresident family members; processes underlying household decision-making; transfers among family members and inter-generational mobility; and participation in community activities.

  In addition to individual- and household-level information, the IFLS provides detailed information from the communities in which IFLS households are located and from the facilities that serve residents of those communities. These data cover aspects of the physical and social environment, infrastructure, employment opportunities, food prices, access to health and educational facilities, and the quality and prices of services available at those facilities.

• Mali: Zone Lacustre Household Dataset, 1997-1998
  This case study took place in Niafunke in northern Mali where the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has an agricultural development project, the "Projet du Developpement de la Zone Lacustre". The site was selected in order to represent food security issues in West African semi-arid and arid environments as well as to represent a francophone country. 4 round survey of 275 households in 10 villages within the Zone Lacustre, collected in 1997 and 1998. In each survey round, men and women were interviewed separately. Each survey covered the household composition, migration, possessions, agricultural production, nonagricultural income, objective and subjective food consumption measures, and nonfood expenditures. Additional questions on poverty perception and nutritional knowledge, practices, and attitudes were asked in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round.

• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
  Third (and most recent) in a series of national probability surveys conducted by AHRQ on the financing and utilization of medical care in the United States.

• Money Management in Lesbian and Gay Couples, 2004-2006
  Investigates how same-sex couples manage their finances; potential links between money management practices and relationship beliefs; how money management in same-sex couples compares with heterosexual couples; and views on civil partnership legislation. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

  Sample Size: 386 cases who had a current partner; 132 cases who were single.

• National Food Survey (1974-2000)
  Provides information on the changing patterns of household food consumption. In 1996 the survey was extended to cover Northern Ireland thus allowing results for the United Kingdom to be presented for the first time. Continued by the Expenditure and Food Survey. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• National Medical Expenditure Survey (1977+)
  Information on health expenditures by or on behalf of families and individuals, the financing of these expenditures, and each person's use of services.

• Palestinian Expenditure and Consumption Survey (1996-1998)
  Provides information on standards of living and patterns of consumption and expenditure among Palestinian households and individuals on different kinds of goods and services such as food groups and other non food groups such as (clothing and footwear, housing, education, health care), and we see the impact of other indicators such as (region, type of locality, sex of head of household, household size) on the average of household and individuals consumption and expenditure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

• Philippines Cash Cropping Project, Southern Bukidnon Province, 1984-1985
  Administered in 4 rounds over 2 years to approximately 450 households. Topics include household information; parcels of land owned and cultivated; production of sugar, corn, rice, and other crops; agricultural wage labor; other sources of income; backyard production; assets; food and non-food expenditures; preschool feeding; health services and nutritional knowledge; time allocation; anthropometry and morbidity; and household food intake.

• Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) (1987+)
  National area-probability sample survey that collects energy-related data for occupied primary housing units.

• South African Income and Expenditure Survey 1995 and 2000
  Comprehensive national survey has been conducted every 5 years to gather data on the income and expenditure of households in South Africa. The objectives are to:
  • determine the weights for the CPI;
  • present the earning and spending capacity of S.A. households; and
  • identify the pattern of household consumption.
  The survey includes households throughout the country, including the 13 historical metropolitan areas as well as other urban areas and rural areas. Data of the 1995 and 2000 surveys are available.

  You must apply directly to the Center for Health and Wellbeing/Research Program in Development Studies for access to this data.

• Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior (1953+)
  Measure changes in consumer attitudes and expectations, to understand why these changes occur, to evaluate how they relate to consumer decisions to save, borrow, or make discretionary purchases, and to forecast changes in aggregate consumer behavior. Changes in consumers' willingness to buy are best assessed by making use of the answers to all questions asked in the surveys, especially the open-ended questions that probe underlying reasons. Nevertheless, in order to make available a summary measure of change in consumer sentiment, the Survey Research Center uses the answers to selected questions to calculate an Index of Consumer Sentiment. Each survey also probes a different aspect of consumer confidence. The surveys use a national sample of dwelling units selected by area probability sampling that is representative of the adult population of the United States.

  Sample Size: National sample of dwelling units selected by area probability sampling that is representative of the adult population of the United States.

• Survey of Consumer Finances. 1947-1971, 1977, 1983+
  Since 1983, conducted every 3 years. Collects information on the assets, liabilities and other financial characteristics of households. Only U.S. survey that contains an oversample of wealthy households. For data prior to 1983, see ICPSR.

  Documentation: (Codebooks) (DSS) HC110.S3 S88

  Sample Size: About 4,500 families are interviewed in the main study.

• Survey of Household Spending Public-Use Microdata File 1998, 2003-2006
  Provides detailed information on household expenditures, dwelling characteristics, and ownership of household equipment such as appliances, communications and entertainment equipment, and vehicles.

  Citation:
  Survey of Household Spending Public-Use Microdata File 1998, 2003-2006 (Electronic File)
  Producer: Statistics Canada
  

• Taiwan Survey of Family Income and Expenditure (SFIE) 1994-2003
  National survey that administers interview of household members to collect data on household facilities and housing conditions, household member characteristics, details on family income and expenditure, family consumption, capital gains and losses, and transfer payment.

  Employs a stratified two-stage sampling method. Under this scheme, the Ts'un to Li (a basic administrative unit) is designated as the primary sampling unit (PSU) and the household in the PSU is the secondary sampling unit. The sample size is about 13,000 households.

  In earlier years (1964-1993), the survey was called as Survey of Personal Income Distribution, and was carried out every other year until 1972. Since 1973 the survey has been conducted annually.

  Data are available yearly for the period 1994-2003.

  You must apply directly to the Center for Health and Wellbeing/Research Program in Development Studies for access to this data.

• Thailand Socio-Economic Survey 1986-1999
  Data on expenditures on food and other consumption items and income (both cash and in-kind). For potential permission to use at Princeton University, contact the Center for Health and Wellbeing directly.

• Transportation Energy Consumption Surveys (1991+)
  

• UK Data Archive. Consumer Behaviour.
  Various consumer behavior data sets from the United Kingdom Data Archive. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA. Not all data is available outside the United Kingdom but most is.

• Wellbeing in Developing Countries (2003-2006)
  Series of studies which aim to develop a conceptual and methodological approach to understanding the social and cultural construction of wellbeing in developing countries (26 community profiles in Bangladesh; Ethiopia; Peru; Thailand). Include details on (1) physical description of the community; historical background and key events; people (population and demographics); languages, religion, social settlement; material resources (occupation, market, infrastructure, provision of government and non government services); natural resources and land use (water, livestock, forest, wildlife, crops); human resources and processes (education, migration, health); socio-political resources (social and political groups, local institutions, social stratification); cultural resources (traditions and beliefs, religious and non religious events); values and satisfaction; incomes (self-employment, wage income, and in kind); expenditures (production costs, food and non-food items); and credit and saving behavior. (Free registration is required]