Aggregate Consumption and Saving in the Postwar United States
调整了国民收入账户和消费者支出调查中的住房服务流数据，发现两者差异随时间扩大，到1989年国民账户的支出水平比调查高出1224亿美元，其中不到一半可归因于定义差异。
Two commonly used sources of aggregate expenditure data are personal consumption expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts and the Consumer Expenditure Surveys administered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We adjust both data sources to incorporate the service flows from owner-occupied housing and other consumer durables. A comparison of the two estimates of aggregate expenditure reveals that the differences between the two data sets have been growing over time. By 1989 the level of aggregate expenditure in the national accounts exceeds that reported in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys by $1224 billions. Less than half of this difference can be attributed to definitional differences in the two data sources.