Consumer Expenditure Potential (CEP) data is partitioned following the item hierarchical schema of the Current Employment Statistics (CES) - Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). For each CES survey, Precisely provides current year (designated in file name as cy) estimates forecasts for all expenditures items provided by CES so long as the data is not missing or too small to yield valuable insight.
Consumer Expenditure Potential (CEP) data is provided into 4 bundles each for current year (cy) expenditure:
Dataset #1
- Households
- Total Household Expenditures
- Food
- Alcoholic beverages
Dataset #2
- Households
- Total Household Expenditures
- Housing
Dataset #3
- Households
- Total Household Expenditures
- Apparel and services
- Transportation
- Healthcare
Dataset #4
- Households
- Total Household Expenditures
- Entertainment
- Personal care products and services
- Reading
- Education
- Tobacco products and smoking supplies
- Miscellaneous
- Cash contributions
- Personal insurance and pensions