Doug wrote: >. . .education, which they weight at 2.7% of spending ><ftp://146.142.4.23/pub/news.release/cpi.txt>. In the CES for 2000, >households spent 1.5% of after-tax income on education. These numbers seem >low, but that's what they say.
That does seem low. But, as oddly, the document indicates that this is mostly "Tuition, other school fees, and childcare." This is the only reference to "childcare" I can find in the document; no separate listing of childcare spending seems to exist. It is hard to believe that the total of (post-tax) education spending _and_ post-tax childcare spending totals less than %3 of the standard consumers' spending. Telephone spending is about the same amount. (Elsewhere reference is made to "personal care services" and to "Miscellaneous personal services" but this is not likely to include childcare.) Eric
