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Consumer spending
2 guides in Finabase Learn
- Consumer sentiment and confidence: how the surveys work How the Michigan sentiment and Conference Board confidence indexes are built, why soft survey data and hard spending data disagree, and how to read them.
- Retail sales report: what it measures and how to read it How the Census Bureau’s monthly retail sales report is built, why it is not adjusted for inflation, the control group arithmetic, confidence intervals and revisions.
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