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1220-0050 198212-1220-003
Historical Inactive 198105-1220-001
DOL/BLS
CONSUMER EXPENDITURE SURVEYS
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Disapproved and continue 01/25/1983
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 12/14/1982
This request for clearance is disapproved. The Department had received clearance for one year expiring December l982. The Department has not provided any data based on that collection suggesting that the information (question 25) served any Federal purpose or need, had any validity, could have any validity or practical utility. The question calls for two totally subjective interpritations - of "smallest income" and of "need to make ends meet." As a result, the respondents would (have) provide answers to the question they perceive was being asked -- and respondents with precisely the same situations with the same perceptions may have totally different understandings of what they "need to make ends meet." Such data cannot serve as the basis for establishing or evaluating family budgets. Accordingly, this request for clearance is disapproved. The other questions contained in the consumer expenditure surveys as approved under OMB number 1220-0050 continue to be approved for use through July, l98
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
07/31/1984 07/31/1984 07/31/1984
38,140 0 38,140
95,550 0 95,550
0 0 0