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Title:
Value of the U.S. Consumer Bundle
Description:
Three series are provided annually for the time period 1900 to the present: value of the consumer bundle (average annual expenditures of consumer units), number of consumer units, and average size of the consumer unit.
Data Format:
Excel
Subject:
P (Household, Family and Consumer History)
Geographic Area:
7 (North America: United States)
Time Period:
0 (General or Comparative)
Publications:

Accompanying the dataset is a detailed data study: "What Was the Value of the Consumer Bundle Then? A Data Study." A related article is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Studies.

URL or FTP Address:
http://www.MeasuringWorth.com
Contact:
Lawrence H. Officer
Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7121
USA
Phone: 1-312-413-9342
Fax: 1-312-996-3344 E-mail: LOfficer@uic.edu


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