Research Guides: BUS 1010 Foundations of Business: Customers

BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Consumer expenditures in 2023, by S. Meyers, G. Paulin, and K Thiel
December 2024
"As consumers assessed their economic wants and needs, how did their spending habits change in 2023?
This report analyzes integrated data from the Diary and Interview Survey components of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE)"
Consumer Expenditures News Release
This annual report includes integrated data from the Diary and Interview portions of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) including one-page data tables. "The tables show average expenditures, income, and characteristics for consumer units classified by 13 characteristics--quintiles of income, before-tax income class, age, size of the consumer unit, composition of the consumer unit, number of earners, housing tenure, race, type of area (urban or rural), Hispanic origin of reference person, region, occupation, and education. The report also includes a brief discussion of expenditure changes for the year, a description of the CE survey, and a short glossary."
Consumer Expenditure Survey
provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit characteristics. The survey data are collected for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Who Spends What

Household Spending - 20th Edition by New Strategist Press
ISBN: 9781933588247
Publication Date: 2015-07-30
NOTE: No longer published.

Examines how much American households spend on hundreds of products and services by age, income, household type, region, race, and educational attainment. Products and services include apparel, entertainment, financial products, food, gifts, health care, household furnishing, shelter, & utilities, personal care, reading, education and transportation.

Understanding your Market

U.S. Census Data

https://data.census.gov

Use the ADVANCED SEARCH, a menu-driven option, for accessing data by county and/or zip code.

Use the limiters on the left side. i.e. Year, Topics (Income & Poverty, or Population & People)

Subject Guide

Tonya Fawcett

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Morgan Library, Room 204

574.372.5100 x6291

StatsAmerica

StatsAmerica - Big Radius Tool

The Big Radius Tool is intended to provide “gross” numbers for a mileage-based radius, beginning at 50 miles and going up to 500 miles. Counties are aggregated, so this isn’t a hyper-precise tool but is intended to provide intelligence on the counties within a large (50 miles or more) radius.

Use It to:

Enumerate how many people live within a certain radius
See which counties are the largest and/or the fastest growing
Quickly learn the size of the labor force and unemployment rate ranges of the counties in the radius
Determine which industry sectors are among the largest in the radius

How to Use It:

It’s easy—just type in the name of a city or county and use the “autofill” to choose the center point of the radius. Then use the slider to increase or decrease the radius (minimum is 50 miles).