, consumption and savings of households. It gives a measure of purchasing power within a consistent and integrated framework, which … surveys exist providing individual data on income and consumption. Those surveys are used to measure inequalities between … "mean" household but without information on disparities between households. On the other hand, several types of household …

household surveys improves both the goodness- of-fit of consumption equations and their forecasting performances. It is …This paper investigates the usefulness of Italian consumer surveys as estimation and forecasting tool over the period … 1982-2003. To this end, standard consumption equations are estimated and then compared, in terms of in-sample and out …

surveys. The availability of panel data offers an opportunity to analyze who and how households escaped or fell into poverty …, data from the last three LSMS surveys (1993, 1998, and 2001) has shown a consistent, though modest, decline in the … we analyze the dynamic of poor households moving in and out of poverty, using panel data from the 1998 and 2001 LSMS …

Qualitative data on inflation perceptions and expectations, as obtained from surveys, can be quantified into numerical … on monthly consumer surveys. The paper also discusses the limited usefulness of quantitative questions, which occur to be …

underlying the behaviour of each of the two players and suggest that the most informative utilization of surveys in this regard …

Public opinion surveys conducted since 1977 in Japan are usually interpreted as showing decreasing support among the …