Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2008

Regarding the fourth edition: "Total consumption expenditure" is obtained by summing all COCIOP numbers for each of annual files. The total will differ from "Total consumption expenditure" that applies to the item and situated in the former criteria files provided from us. The reason is that in COCIOP is "Interest on housing" is replaced by "imputed rent".

Statistics Norway have used periodical consumption surveys as a basis for establishing and updating the weighting foundation for the reality price index. Detailed accounts of the consumption in private households have also established an important basis for the level of living statistics and for research on income, level of living and for example effects of the taxing system usage of direct and indirect taxes. The material is also so detailed that it constitutes an interesting groundwork for nutrition analyses. The data can also be applied in demand studies, in economical planning models or for specification of private consumption in the national financial statement.

In 1974 SSB converted to a system with annual surveys with somewhat smaller samples. From 1974-1976 data was published for 3 years at the time, and the annual gross samples of about 1500 households, net sample of 1100-1200 households. The aim was still to build a detailed overview of the consumption in private households, that constitutes a groundwork for updating the weighting basis in the reality price index. Another aim was to map out consumption in various types of households. The households are classified in accordance with such marks as household type, income, main income earners working status and age, neighborhood, size of total consumption spending, etc. The data are organized in several sections and contains background information about the household (gathered through an introductory interview that maps out the household composition), detailed consumption measured in value and amounts (registered by journal notation, for the household and the individual members of the household), the households purchase of durable consumer goods (lasting capital objects, gathered through a comprehensive finishing interview), consumption of self-produced goods, income and taxes.

关于第四版：本次第四版中的"总消费支出"系通过对各年度文件中的全部COCIOP条目求和得到。该总额与此前我方提供的标准文件中对应品类的"总消费支出"存在差异，原因在于COCIOP体系中以"估算租金"取代了"住房利息"。

挪威统计局（Statistics Norway）以周期性消费调查为基础，构建并更新真实价格指数的权重基准。私人家庭消费的详细核算同时为生活水平统计、收入与生活水平研究，以及直接税、间接税税制实施效果等研究提供了重要依据。该数据集的细节程度使其可作为营养分析的优质基础素材，亦可应用于需求研究、经济规划模型构建，或是国民财务报表中私人消费项的明细设定。

1974年，挪威统计局改用年度调查体系，样本规模有所缩减。1974至1976年间，数据以每3年为周期发布，年度总样本量约为1500户，有效样本量为1100至1200户。本次调查的核心目标仍是详尽梳理私人家庭的消费情况，为真实价格指数的权重基准更新提供支撑；另一目标则是厘清不同类型家庭的消费结构。家庭分类维度涵盖家庭类型、收入水平、主要收入来源者的就业状态与年龄、居住社区、总消费支出规模等。数据集分为多个模块，包含家庭背景信息（通过介绍性访谈收集，用于明确家庭构成）、以价值与数量计量的详细消费数据（通过日记记账方式记录，覆盖家庭及全体家庭成员）、家庭耐用品消费（即长期耐用资本品，通过全面收尾访谈收集）、自产商品消费、收入与纳税情况等。