what is total consumer spending in the US for age group 15 - 30? what
is total consumer spending in the US for casual apparel?

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 23 Sep 2005 19:46 PDT

Blueflyer,

Please take a look at the following publications.

Consumer expenditures
http://stats.bls.gov/cex/csxann03.pdf

Table 3. Age of reference person: Average annual expenditures and 
characteristics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2003
http://stats.bls.gov/cex/2003/Standard/age.pdf

Spending Patterns By Age
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils41.pdf

Please let me know if the figures in the above publications would
serve your purpose?

Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by blueflyer-ga on 25 Sep 2005 12:59 PDT

i found a citation for spending for gen y 8 to 21 is 211 billion from
promo magazine sept 16 2003 -- it is much higher than census data.

i need a simple answer in dollors for us consumer spending for ages 15
- 30 with an simple explanation of how determined and from what
sources. i do not need or want citations to gov statistics which do
not answer question.

also, for total casual us apparel spending same thing.

i need the response NO LATER than Friday, sept 30.

thank you.

Try http://www.economicindicators.gov/