A time series of data on expenditure demographics and labour supply based on the Family Expenditure Survey (and its successors the Expenditure and Food Survey and the Living Costs and Food Survey) coving the period since the 1970s.
Download the data from the UK Data Service
- Prices data - To accompany these data, we have created a time series of prices which match the structure of derived expenditure variables. You can download these data here.
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