Attachment U - 2018 Response Rates in the Consumer Expenditure Survey

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Consumer Expenditure Surveys: Quarterly Interview and Diary

Attachment U - 2018 Response Rates in the Consumer Expenditure Survey

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U .S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics

2 Massachusetts Ave. N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20212


October 9, 2019


MEMORANDUM FOR: DAVID C. SWANSON, Supervisory Mathematical Statistician

Branch of Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Division of Price Statistical Methods

Office of Prices and Living Conditions


FROM: SHARON L. KRIEGER, Mathematical Statistician

Branch of Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Division of Price Statistical Methods

Office of Prices and Living Conditions


SUBJECT: 2018 Response Rates for the Interview and Diary Surveys


The response rate for eligible Consumer Units (CUs) in the 2018 Interview survey was 57.4% as shown below. The table also shows response rates from 2014 thru 2017 as a comparison.


Interview Survey

Collection Year

CUs Designated for the Survey

Type B or C Nonresponses

Total Eligible CUs

Type A Nonresponses


Interviews

Response Rate for Eligible CUs

2014

47,529

8,526

39,003

13,095

25,908

66.4%

2015

44,295

7,603

36,692

13,118

23,574

64.2%

2016

48,253

7,878

40,375

14,934

25,441

63.0%

2017

47,949

7,756

40,193

15,714

24,479

60.9%

2018

48,018

7,652

40,366

17,207

23,159

57.4%


The counts for 2014 are for interviews 2 through 5, which excludes the bounding interviews. The bounding interview was discontinued at the beginning of 2015 so no bounding interviews are in 2015 or later years.1 Also, there was a sample design change in 2015. The Interview survey counts for 2015 are for the “2010-based” sample design. There were no cases in January 2015 in that sample design, which is the reason the number of CUs designated for the survey dropped from 47,529 in 2014 to 44,295 in 2015.


The response rate for eligible Consumer Units (CUs) in the 2018 Diary survey was 55.0% as shown below. The table also shows response rates from 2014 thru 2017 as a comparison.


Diary Survey

Collection Year

CUs Designated for the Survey

Type B or C Nonresponses

Total Eligible CUs

Type A Nonresponses


Interviews

Response Rate for Eligible CUs

2014

25,606

5,130

20,476

7,170

13,306

65.0%

2015

24,961

4,444

20,517

8,676

11,841

57.7%

2016

24,666

4,275

20,391

8,839

11,552

56.7%

2017

24,696

4,586

20,110

8,452

11,658

58.0%

2018

24,522

4,389

20,133

9,054

11,079

55.0%

Type B or C nonresponses are housing units that are vacant, nonexistent, or ineligible for interview. Type A nonresponses are housing units which the interviewers were unable to contact or the respondents refused to participate in the survey. The response rates stated above are based only on the eligible housing units (i.e., the designated sample less type B and C nonresponses).


OPLC/SMD/Krieger/slk/10092019/A19032

cc: J. Brattland

A. Cobet

B. Creech

S. Curtin

E. Drummer

M. Edwards

L. Erhard

T. Garner

S. Henderson

B. Nix

S. Reyes-Morales

A. Safir

B. Steinberg

1 The bounding interview, which recorded recent major expenditures for comparison with subsequent purchases, was determined to be unnecessary, and was dropped at the beginning of 2015 to save money and reduce respondent burden and collection costs.



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