2022 Esri Consumer Spending Methodology

This methodology white paper describes how Esri integrates data from the latest Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CEX)—the Diary Survey and the Interview Survey—from the Bureau of Labor Statistics with Tapestry Segmentation data to provide a comprehensive database about all consumer expenditures.

Esri has combined the latest Consumer Expenditure Surveys, 2019 and 2020, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to estimate current spending patterns.