Title: Survey of family expenditures, 1992. Version 5, 1994.

Series title: Survey of consumer finances

Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada. Household Surveys Division

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Household Surveys Division

Date of creation: 1994-10-31

Funding agency:

Collector:

Distributor: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Household Surveys Division

Date of distribution:

Access conditions/restrictions: University of Toronto faculty, students and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only. See DLI licence.

Summary: The Survey of Family Expenditure of 1992 is the first since 1990. The survey collects information on the detailed expenditures during the reference period, of households in Canada. Contextual variables include the characteristics of the reference person, the spouse of the reference persohn, the household and the dwelling.

Keywords: housing, characteristics of reference person, characteristics of spouse of reference person, household description, expenditure

Geographic coverage: Canada, provinces

Time period: reference period 1992

Periodicity:

Date(s) of collection: 1993-01 to 1993-03

Universe: persons living in private households in the ten provinces of Canada as well as Whitehorse and Yellowknife with the following exceptions:
residents of Indian Reserves;
patients and inmates living full-time in collective households such as old age homes, penal institutions, and hospitals;
families of official representatives of foreign countries.

Excluded from this file are part-year households (see the section on the Treatment of Changes During Reference Year below) and all records from Whitehorse and Yellowknife.

Data type: public use microdata

Sample: multistage stratified clustered sample selected from the Labour Force Survey sampling frame.

Unit of observation: household

Mode of data collection:

Extent of file: 1 data file (9,492 logical records varies) & accompanying documentation

Citation: Statistics Canada. Survey of family expenditures, 1992 [computer file]. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Household Surveys Division [producer and distributor], 1994.

Notes:

Data on detailed food expenditure for 1992 were collected in a separate survey (see Statistics Canada Catalogue Number 62-554). The Food Survey had the same coverage as the Family Expenditure Survey of 1992.

Records from Whitehorse and Yellowknife have been excluded from both the 1992 files.

Related data:

Family expenditure survey detailed household expenditure tables: 1986, 1996
Survey of household spending: detailed tables: 1997-[latest]
Survey of family expenditure: public use microdata files

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