The Household Expenditure Survey, 1988-89, Second Edition CURF contains data on 27,329 persons belonging to 7,225 households in private dwellings with 542,394 expenditure records including capital city / other urban / rest of State identifiers; household, family and income unit types; age; sex; marital status; birthplace; year of arrival in Australia; labour force details including occupation and hours worked; student status; selected details of credit cards, mortgages and loans; housing costs; nature of housing occupancy; number of bedrooms and type of dwelling structure; number of spenders; weekly income by source of income for persons and households; and average weekly expenditure by 422 fine level commodity codes for households.

The second edition of the CURF is a re-release of the previous version, with the addition of a variable indicating State/Territory of residence. This has been added to allow clients to analyse income and expenditure data by State/Territory over time. The 1988-89 CURF was the only HES CURF from 1984 onwards that did not include this data item. Identifier names have also been changed to comply with current standards.

For more information about content and use of the Household Expenditure Survey, Australia (1988-89), Second Edition, Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) see Household Expenditure Survey, Australia: Technical Paper, 1988-89 (cat. no. 6544.0).