Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, April 2010 (ICPSR 35432)

Version Date: Sep 15, 2015

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Principal Investigator(s):
University of Michigan. Survey Research Center. Economic Behavior Program

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35432.v2

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Summary

The Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior series (also known as the Surveys of Consumers) was undertaken to measure changes in consumer attitudes and expectations, to understand why such changes occur, and to evaluate how they relate to consumer decisions to save, borrow, or make discretionary purchases. The data regularly include the Index of Consumer Sentiment, the Index of Current Economic Conditions, and the Index of Consumer Expectations. Since the 1940s, these surveys have been produced quarterly through 1977 and monthly thereafter. The surveys conducted in 2010 focused on topics such as evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, price changes, and the national business situation. Opinions were collected regarding respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses, automobiles, and other durables. Explored in this survey were respondents' types of savings and financial investments, loan use, family income, and retirement planning. This survey also asked respondents about independent living communities, leisure, political affiliation, and general feelings. Other topics in this series typically include ownership, lease, and use of automobiles, respondents' use of personal computers at home and in the office, and respondents' familiarity with and use of the Internet. Demographic information include ethnic origin, sex, age, marital status, and education.

Citation

University of Michigan. Survey Research Center. Economic Behavior Program. Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, April 2010. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-09-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35432.v2

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Subject Terms

automobiles   computer use   consumer attitudes   consumer expectations   consumer expenditures   depression (psychology)   economic behavior   economic change   economic conditions   economic policy   financial assets   financial planning   gasoline consumption   gasoline prices   government   health care   health care access   health care costs   health status   home ownership   household appliances   household expenditures   household income   housing costs   income   independent living   inflation   interest rates   Internet   investments   leisure   national economy   older adults   pensions   personal finances   political affiliation   refinancing   retirement   savings   Social Security   stock markets   stock prices   unemployment   unemployment rate   vehicles

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Census division

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2010-03 -- 2010-04

Date of Collection

2010-03 -- 2010-04

Data Collection Notes

  1. Information on the Index of Consumer Sentiment, the Index of Current Economic Conditions, and the Index of Consumer Expectations and how they were created can be found in the ICPSR Codebook.

  2. Additional information on the Survey of Consumers can be found by visiting the Surveys of Consumers Web site.

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Study Purpose

The purpose of this survey series is to forecast changes in aggregate consumer behavior.

Sample

National sampling of dwelling units selected by area probability sampling.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend / Repeated Cross-section

Universe

Persons aged 18 years or older living in households with telephones within the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual, household

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2015-04-16

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • University of Michigan. Survey Research Center. Economic Behavior Program. Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, April 2010. ICPSR35432-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-09-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35432.v2

2015-09-15 This collection has been fully curated and is being updated to include SPSS, SAS, and Stata data and setup files, a tab-delimited data file, an R data file, and a PDF codebook.

2015-04-16 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data are not weighted. This collection contains four weights; WT (HOUSEHOLD HEAD WEIGHT), WT_HH (HOUSEHOLD WEIGHT), WT_ADHD (ADULT HEAD WEIGHT), and WT_AD (ADULT WEIGHT) that must be used in any analysis. For more information on weights and sampling, please visit the Surveys of Consumers Web site and refer to the documentation on Sample Design and the section on Sample Weights.

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