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Australian Consumption Expenditure and Real Income: 1900 to 2003–2004.
- Source :
- Economic Record; Dec2007, Vol. 83 Issue 263, p416-431, 16p, 11 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This paper provides new data of personal consumption expenditure at current and constant prices from 1900 to 1938–1939. The series is linked in with the official estimates, available from 1948–1949, to provide a broadly consistent series of estimates of consumers’ expenditure from Federation, based on new series of data. We comment on the differences in estimates often used to compare trends in real incomes, and attribute the differences as being mainly due to limitations of official data. We use the present results to describe the changes in the pattern of expenditure by main functional groupings, and compare the changes in real per capita expenditure in Australia with that in the UK and USA since the end of the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONSUMPTION (Economics)
REAL income
RESEARCH
ESTIMATES
PER capita
ECONOMIC trends
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00130249
- Volume :
- 83
- Issue :
- 263
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Economic Record
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28064779
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00431.x