## Personal Expenditure Data

## Usage

    data(consume)

## Format

A matrix with 5 rows and 5 columns.

## Description

This data set consists of United States personal expenditures (in billions of dollars) in the categories; food and tobacco, household operation, medical and health, personal care, and private education for the years 1940, 1945, 1950, and 1960.

## Source

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1962, page 756.

## References

Tukey, J. W. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley. McNeil, D. R. (1977). Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.

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