October 8, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Income and public transportation expenditures
Although households
in all income groups allocated over half of their public transportation
expenditures to airfare in 1997, the proportion spent on airfare varied
markedly among income groups.
[Chart data—TXT]
For the five groups shown in the chart, the share of public
transportation expenditures that went to air travel ranged from 51 percent
for the lowest income group to 70 percent for the highest. There was also
much variation in the share spent on mass transit—the lowest income
group allocated 25 percent of public transportation expenditures to this
in 1997, while the highest income group allocated just 10 percent.
One category with a small amount of variation among income groups was
train travel. The share of spending that went to intercity train travel
only ranged from 4.2 percent to 5.8 percent among the groups.
These data are a product of the BLS Consumer
Expenditure Survey program.
Additional information is available from "Issues in Labor Statistics:
Expenditures on Public Transportation" (PDF
16K).
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