Consumer confidence is one measure used to evaluate economic sentiment.

The U. S. Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ) is an indicator designed to measure consumer confidence, which is defined as the degree of optimism on the state of the economy that consumers are expressing through their activities of savings and spending.

Another well-established index that measures consumer confidence is the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, run by University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

Consumer confidence and sentiment surveys measure how people are doing financially, how they look at the overall economy of the country or business conditions in the country, if they think that the government is doing a good or a poor job and if people think that it is a good or a bad time to buy a car or to buy or sell a house.

* The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index ( MCSI ) is a consumer confidence index published monthly by the University of Michigan.

* The Washington Post-ABC News Consumer Comfort Index is a consumer confidence index based on telephone interviews with 1, 000 randomly selected adults over the previous four-week period.

* Consumer confidence report, annual water quality report in the United States

* Consumer confidence report, annual water quality report in the United States

* Consumer confidence

Consumer Confidence Average Index ( CCAI ) is a monthly indicator that aggregates data from three major national polls on consumer confidence.

The Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index measures the confidence, major concerns and spending habits of online consumers in 54 countries on the half-annual basis.

An Administrator is required in the Consumer Proposal, and a Trustee in the Division I Proposal ( these are virtually the same although the terms are not interchangeable ).

While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislo, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R & D Division instead is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of various game development stages.

Internationally there is the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network ( ICPEN ), which was formed in 1991 from an informal network of government customer fair trade organisations.

In Australia, Trade is covered under Australian Treasury Guidelines for electronic commerce, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regulates and offers advice on how to deal with businesses online, and offers specific advice on what happens if things go wrong.

FAO is composed of eight departments: Administration and Finance, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Economic and Social Development, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry, Knowledge and Communication, Natural Resource Management and Technical Cooperation.

The Irish health system, being administered centrally by the Health Service Executive, is seen to be poor by comparison to other countries in Europe, ranking outside expected levels at 25th according to the Euro Health Consumer Index 2006.

The H. J. Heinz Company (), commonly known as Heinz and famous for its " 57 Varieties " slogan and its ketchup, is a U. S Consumer packaged goods company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Infocom trademark is currently held by Pete Hottelet's Omni Consumer Products, who registered the name around the same time as Klaeffling in 2007.

Consumer perception of foods treated with irradiation is more negative than those processed by other means.

Consumer advocacy groups such as Public Citizen or Food and Water Watch maintain that the safety of irradiated food is not proven, in particular long-term studies are still lacking, and strongly oppose the use of the technology.

Consumer surplus is the difference between the value of a good to a consumer and the price the consumer must pay in the market to purchase it.

Another innovation, the August Third People's Consumer Goods Production Movement, is centred on consumer goods production.

Philips is organized into three main divisions: Philips Consumer Lifestyle ( formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care ), Philips Healthcare ( formerly Philips Medical Systems ) and Philips Lighting.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

* January – The world's first personal all-in-one computer ( keyboard / screen / tape storage ), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago

A chief measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, the annualized percentage change in a general price index ( normally the Consumer Price Index ) over time.

Consumer surplus or consumers ' surplus is the monetary gain obtained by consumers because they are able to purchase a product for a price that is less than the highest price that they would be willing to pay.

Consumer surplus is thus the definite integral of the demand function with respect to price, minus the definite integral of the constant function D ( P )= Q < sub > mkt </ sub > ( i. e. P < sub > mkt </ sub > Q < sub > mkt </ sub >), from the market price to the maximum reservation price ( i. e. the price-intercept of the demand function ):

Family and Consumer Sciences Education is viewed as the focus of individuals and families living in society throughout the life span.

The AAFCS ( American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences ) represents teachers, educators, cooperatives, business, designers and nutritionists. The American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences ( AAFCS ) is the only national forum where K-12 teachers, university educators, and corporate executives collaborate to improve the quality of individual and family life.

Consumer surplus is the area between the price line and the demand curve.

-- `` Consumer uncertain about economic conditions ''.

Consumer demand can be restrained in favor of greater capital investment for economic development in a desired pattern.

* Consumer Aggregate Demand, an economic indicator

And in Consumer Research: Postcards from the edge, when discussing behavioral and economic studies, the authors contrasted the " enclosed locations " used with Large Group Awareness Trainings with the " relatively open " environment of a " variety store ".

The Bureau of Economics was established to support the Bureau of Competition and Consumer Protection by providing expert knowledge related to the economic impacts of the FTC's legislation and operation.

For example it may be thought to help understanding and facilitate economic analysis if what is included under the heading of Consumption is the same in the Consumer Price Index and in the national income and expenditure accounts.

Catherine is currently Labour's Euro-Spokesperson on Consumer Rights and is the only Scottish MEP on the prestigious economic and monetary affairs committee.

Other important organizations formed in the same era were the New Deal programs aimed at promoting economic recovery after the Great Depression by increasing consumer representation in the market, with the Consumer Advisory Board within the National Recovery Administration and the Consumers ' Counsel within the United States Department of Agriculture being notable among them.

* South Carolina Appleseed has been a leader in the state ’ s passage of a number of economic opportunity reforms including passage of the state ’ s Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the South Carolina High Cost Mortgage and Consumer Home Loan Act.

" Consumer Communism ", based on present global economic conditions, raised Polish living standards and expectations, but the program faltered suddenly in the early 1970s because of worldwide recession and increased oil prices.

* Submission of a position paper to the OECD Committee for Consumer Policy for its discussion on the strategic response to the global financial and economic crisis.

He co-presents RTE's The Consumer Show the state broadcasters weekly consumer watchdog programme and regularly appears in media debates on the nature of the Irish economic austerity policy heavily critical of the cross subsidising of the public sector and inaction in dealing with Irish consumer insolvency.

He is a frequent commentator and writer on social, economic and financial affairs on Irish TV, radio and newspapers and co-presents The Consumer Show on RTE TV.