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Consumer confidence surveys: can they help us forecast consumer spending in real time?
Abstract: In ?Consumer Confidence Surveys: Can They Help Us Forecast Consumer Spending in Real Time?,? Dean Croushore uses the Philadelphia Fed?s real-time data set to investigate an important question: Does using data available to forecasters at the time ? that is, real-time data ? make measures of consumer confidence more valuable for forecasting?
Keywords: Consumer surveys; Consumer behavior;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Part of Series: Business Review
Publication Date: 2006
Issue: Q3
Pages: 1-9