Data Collection

Consumer Expenditure Survey
A detailed survey providing information on expenditures and incomes of US consumers, including individual and household characteristics.
General Household Survey
An overview and definition of the General Household Survey as it applies in economics.
Randomized Response
A technique for eliciting truthful answers to sensitive questions in surveys, used to estimate the proportion of a population belonging to a sensitive group.
survey data
Data collected by surveys of individuals or firms, which may be regional, national, or supranational, covering either the entire population or sample thereof.