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MEPS respondent expenditure histogram
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expenditure_histogram.py
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.ticker as mtick
import meps
survey = meps.as_dataframe("h192")
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(9, 4))
fmt = '${x:,.0f}'
tick = mtick.StrMethodFormatter(fmt)
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(tick)
plt.xlabel('Total Expenditure in Dollars')
plt.ylabel('Number of Respondents')
survey['TOTEXP16'].hist(log=True, xrot=0., bins=6, rwidth=0.75, align="left")
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