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The Survey of Consumer Expectations: A Look Back at the Past Decade


Abstract: It has been a little over ten years since we started releasing findings from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE). In this post, we review some of the headline findings from the first decade of the survey’s history, highlighting the evolution of consumers’ expectations about inflation and labor market outcomes.

Keywords: expectations; survey; survey design; inflation; earnings; job finding;

JEL Classification: C83; D83; D84; D10;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Part of Series: Liberty Street Economics

Publication Date: 2024-04-16

Number: 20240416