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Consumer Expenditure Survey, Table 4: Size of consumer unit, 1996, four-person column
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · 1996
Source notes & limitations
Archived cusize-1996.pdf and its layout-preserving text extraction. The four-person column is distinct from the all-consumer-unit column. Published means are rounded; calculated shares are ratios of the cited means. The linked table index is not a direct historical-file verification.
Where this source appears
1 records across 1 decades and countries. Documented gaps are included; a source cited for a gap does not establish a value.
1 of 1 records have a current source audit. A transcription check reads a declared numeric field from a pinned local source file; a calculation replay reads its operands and applies the declared method and rounding rule. A source audit does not independently validate the source or every claim in a record. The date is the last successful local audit; the build checks that its bindings still match.
5.7% of total expenditures
% of total annual expenditures
Calculation replayed · 2026-09-08
Calculation method & rounding
Four-person consumer units, 1996: numerator mean divided by denominator mean, multiplied by 100, rounded once to one decimal place. This is a ratio of survey means, not the mean of individual household ratios.
Percentage of the denominator, rounded to 1 decimal places before unit scaling. Exact halfway cases round away from zero.
2 source operands; the source audit records their pinned file and addresses.