Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192813 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 831
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Data on consumption expenditure of the household is essential in a wide array of economic research. This includes both topics in micro as well as macroeconomics. However, obtaining a consistent and precise measure of household consumption has proven notoriously difficult. This paper documents a method for computing a longitudinal consumption measure for Norwegian households from administrative records of income and wealth. Expenditure surveys tend to suffer from limited sample sizes and underrepresentation of high-income households. Administrative data does not have such limitations and offers a much larger sample with better coverage of all household types. This is particularly useful for improving the measurement of heterogeneity in consumption behavior.
Subjects: 
consumption measurement
savings
household finance
JEL: 
D12
D14
D31
E21
G11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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