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Consumer Expenditure Surveys
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Consumer Expenditure Surveys Public Use Microdata (PUMD) ERRATA - 2021 and 2022 Interview

ERRATA - Consumer Expenditure Public-Use Microdata
September 22, 2023

To users of the 2022 Consumer Expenditure Public Use Microdata files:

  1. MEMI files for quarters 2 and 3 of 2022 have been updated to include 9 consumer units, which were previously missing. For these 9 CUs, changes to FMLI, ITBI, ITII, NTAX, and MEMI have been made to account for missing income and tax liability data that was previously not stored due to the missing values on the MEMI files.
  2. A discrepancy in establishing the head of the tax unit in the tax estimation calculation for PUMD was discovered. As a result, tax liability data for 103 CUs located in the FMLI, ITBI, ITII, NTAX, and MEMI files have been updated. For reference, this update changed the sample mean for personal taxes from $10,595 to $10,625.

To the users of the 2021 Consumer Expenditure Public Use Microdata files:

  1. MEMI files for quarter 4 2021 and quarter 1 of 2022 have been updated to include 4 consumer units, which were previously missing. For these 4 CUs, changes to FMLI, ITBI, ITII, NTAX, and MEMI have also been made to account for missing income and tax liability data that was previously not stored due to the missing values on the MEMI files.
  2. A discrepancy in establishing the head of the tax unit in the tax estimation calculation for PUMD was discovered. As a result, data for 29 CUs located in the FMLI, ITBI, ITII, NTAX, and MEMI files have been updated. This had no effect on the overall means for the data.

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Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Last Modified Date: September 22, 2023