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A century of family budgets in the United States
David S. Johnson
Research Economist, Division of Price and Index Number Research, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
John M. Rogers
Economist, Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Lucilla Tan
Economist, Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Throughout the past 100 years, family budgets have been produced
using a variety of methodologies; these budgets are compared with new budgets that have been derived
using actual expenditures of families
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