Midpack
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If you can get past identifying yourself as "aged" (not me!), there's a lot of good information here for you data/chart geeks out there (like me).
I've cut-n-pasted in one chart of many. Our % of spending by category is radically different, and I am sure that will be the case for many.
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/expenditures_aged/2010/exp-aged-2010.pdf
I've cut-n-pasted in one chart of many. Our % of spending by category is radically different, and I am sure that will be the case for many.
A tangent but it may be worth remembering these are current/nominal $. Not inflation adjusted so comparing age groups and drawing conclusions about spending less in later years directly from these $ figures is probably very misleading. We [-]beat that to death[/-] had that discussion in an earlier thread.
And hopefully we won't get sidetracked discussing "consumer units" (again). Defined early in the linked doc.
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/expenditures_aged/2010/exp-aged-2010.pdf