The Effectiveness of Family Life Cycle Variables in Consumer Expenditure Research

Abstract

Traditional family life cycle, revised family life cycle, and family composition variables are compared in models predicting total family clothing expenditures. There is little difference in the predictive ability of the three sets of variables. In models controlling for socioeconomic and demographic variables, family life cycle and family composition variables have little predictive ability, independent of income.

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