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Consumer Expenditure Surveys
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2025 federal government shutdown impact on the Consumer Expenditure Surveys
This page addresses the effects of the 2025 federal government shutdown on the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE). The Census Bureau collects CE data for BLS in two surveys: the Interview Survey for major and/or recurring items and the Diary Survey for more minor or frequently purchased items.
Federal government agencies were shut down or operating at reduced staffing levels during a lapse in appropriations from October 1, 2025, through November 12, 2025.
We will update this page as more information becomes available.
You may be interested in these resources
- The Consumer Expenditure Surveys news release
- Revised news release dates
On this page:
1. How will the 2025 federal government shutdown impact Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) and spending weights for the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
Due to the 2025 lapse in funding, Census could not collect Consumer Expenditure (CE) data in October and November 2025. The Census Bureau conducts CE data collection for BLS. Census resumed collection of the CE on December 5, 2025.
BLS is evaluating how to account for these missing data in various planned publications, including the 2025 annual CE release, final revisions of the 2025 Chained CPI-U indexes, and 2027 CPI-U and CPI-W indexes which will use 2025 CE data as spending weights.
BLS will inform data users on its methodologies for accounting for the missing CE data prior to data releases.
Last modified date: March 13, 2026