, 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 …

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of … principal components analysis to extract the common signals from the surveys. I show that the ability of different population …

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of … principal components analysis to extract the common signals from the surveys. I show that the ability of different population …

Michigan Surveys of Consumers. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data …

Over much of the period since the late 1970s consumer confidence in France according to the consumer surveys prepared …

consumption module in MICS (Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys). …Two short consumption modules were piloted in Bogra and Sirajganj (Bangladesh) in May-June 2012 as part of the Global … MICS5 Pilot. This paper aims at validating this exercise and assessing the accuracy and reliability of the consumption …

In this paper, we present data on recent trends in private consumption and in possible determinants of private … consumption (such as GDP, household incomes, household saving rates, household wealth, and employment conditions) in the Group of … consumption growth rates but also in the determinants of private consumption growth during the 2002-07 period. With respect to …