An overview of the survey of consumer expectations

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This report presents an overview of the Survey of Consumer Expectations, a new monthly online survey of a rotating panel of household heads. The survey collects timely information on consumers' expectations and decisions on a broad variety of topics, including but not limited to inflation, household finance, the labor market, and the housing market. There are three main goals of the survey: (1) measuring consumer expectations at a high frequency, (2) understanding how these expectations are formed, and (3) investigating the link between expectations and behavior. This report discusses the origins of the survey, the questionnaire design, the implementation of the survey and the sample, and computation of various statistics that are released every month. We conclude with a discussion of how the results are disseminated, and how the (micro) data may be accessed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Staff Report ; No. 800

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access ; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General ; Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
• Subject: survey ; expectations ; inflation ; measurement

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Armantier, Olivier ; Topa, Giorgio ; van der Klaauw, Wilbert ; Zafar, Basit
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• (where): New York, NY
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/175208
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET