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Consumer Expenditure Surveys
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Section 17 - Subscriptions, Memberships, Books, and Entertainment Expenses

Part A - SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

  1. Newspaper delivery
  2. Books purchased from book club
  3. Compact discs, tapes, videos, or records purchased from a mail order club
  4. Magazine or periodical subscriptions
  5. Season tickets to theater, concert series, opera, other musical series, or amusement parks
  6. Season tickets to sporting events
  7. Reference books NOT in sets
  8. Encyclopedias or other sets of reference books
  9. Country club, health club, swimming pools, tennis clubs, social or other recreational organizations
  10. Civic, service, or fraternal organization
  11. Credit card membership fees
  12. Shopping club memberships

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Last Modified Date: November 29, 2005