An assessment of the Encuesta Continua de Presupuestos Familiares (1985-89) as a source of information for applied reseach

Abstract

The Encuesta Continua de Presupuestos Familiares is a recent survey of the consumption patters os Spanish households. Given the increasing trend in the use of micro-data in applied research in general and demand analysis in particular, this paper sets out to explore the possibilities offered by the survey is shown to be a feature which can facilitate the work of the researcher when specifying an econometric model of consumtion containing limited dependent variables.