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Consumers & Market Segments Research Guide
This Bentley Library research guide was created to provide a starting point for researching consumers and market segments.
The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and household characteristics. The survey data are collected for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau. Free resource.
Although Consumer Expenditure Survey tables are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, users may find that DemographicsNow has a more intuitive interface and better built-in report options than the BLS site. Use DemographcisNow to get current year CEX estimates and 5-year projections for any U.S. geographic area. Data is provided by AGS and is based on extensive modeling of the BLS' Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Provides detailed consumer expenditure data for 71 countries.
Search Tip: Click on [Consumers], then click on [Income & Expenditures]. In the [Country Reports] section use the drop-down boxes to select a category and country. This should retrieve the "Income and Expenditure Country Report" for the country you've chosen.
Analyzes spending on more than 300 products/services. Identifies which households spend the most (best customers) and which control the largest share of spending (biggest customers).
Based on unpublished data from the BLS' Consumer Expenditure Survey. Examines Americans' spending on 1,000 products and services organized by age, income, household type, and geographic region.
Call Number: Click link above to view call numbers for the 14 individual titles
Based on unpublished data from the BLS. There are 14 individual titles in this series, each focusing on a different category (e.g. entertainment, groceries, travel, restaurants, etc.)
Based on unpublished data from the BLS' Consumer Expenditure Survey, American Buyers includes weekly and quarterly buying that shows the percentage of households that buy individual products and services and how much buyers pay for them, all broken down by age, household income, household type, race and Hispanic origin, region of residence, and education.
Household Spending: Who Spends How Much on What
Who's Buying... Series
American Buyers: Demographics of Shopping
