Economics, Labor & Consumer Behavior
Consumer Expectations & Inflation
University of Michigan
Michigan Survey of Consumers
Consumer sentiment indexing, expected inflation distributions, hypothesis testing.
📊 Overview
Platform: Michigan Survey of Consumers
Domain: Consumer Expectations & Inflation
Maintained by: University of Michigan
📥 Access & Resources
Access and formats:
Microdata CSV, Excel, SAS/Stata
R wrapper package:
readr
Python wrapper package:
pandas
🎯 Teaching & Analysis
Consumer sentiment indexing, expected inflation distributions, hypothesis testing.
Use this dataset to
- Analyze consumer sentiment indices
- Study household inflation expectations
- Compare household financial evaluations
- Conduct hypothesis tests using survey microdata