example3 {deFit}

University of Michigan consumer sentiment index

Description

The Surveys of Consumers are conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. Founded in 1946 by George Katona, the surveys have long stressed the important influence of consumer spending and saving decisions in determining the course of the national economy.

Usage

example3

Format

A data frame with 540 rows and 6 variables:

seq

sequence of observations

month

months of data

year

from 1978 to 2022

current

the Index of Current Economic Conditions (ICC)

expected

the Index of Consumer Expectations (ICE)

myTime

months converted to time series

Source

University of Michigan, Survey Research Center, Surveys of Consumers. https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/