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.

In the glossary on its website, The Conference Board defines the Consumer Confidence Survey as " a monthly report detailing consumer attitudes and buying intentions, with data available by age, income and region ".

The preliminary results from the Consumer Confidence Survey are released on the last Tuesday of each month at 10am EST.

The index values for all five questions are then averaged together to form the Consumer Confidence Index ; the average of index values for questions one and three form the Present Situation Index, and the average of index values for questions two, four and five form the Expectations Index.

U. S. Consumer Confidence Index 1966 – 2012

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index is the most widely accepted index among the United States media, businesspeople, and many consumers.

The BluFin India Consumer Confidence Index is the first monthly, statistically robust index of consumer sentiment in India.

The sample aims at capturing the major contributors to the personal consumption component of the GDP. The BluFin Consumer Confidence Index was developed by a team of financial economists and statisticians led

The BluFin Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ) was 39. 9 in March, 2012 compared with its lowest score of 35. 8 in December last year.

The Conference Board of Canada's Index of Consumer Confidence has been ongoing since 1980.

Consumer Confidence Index has been tabulated since 1999 as part of the Consumer Survey by Bank Indonesia.

The Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ), is an average of the Current Economic Condition Index ( CECI ) and Consumer Expectation Index ( CEI ).

In September 2011, Indonesia sets world record in the KADIN-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index at 146. 8, an all time high.

Danareksa conducts a monthly consumer survey to produce the Consumer Confidence Index.

* Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index page

* Consumer Confidence Average

* Consumer Confidence in India

* Conference Board of Canada's Consumer Confidence

* Bank Indonesia Consumer Confidence Index

* The Indian Consumer Confidence Index website

* The Indian Consumer Confidence Index Launch

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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.

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.

* United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index homepage

* Inflation 1290 – 2006 – Based on the historical Consumer Price Index of the Swedish Riksbank

Official indices report a Consumer Price Index increase of 30 % in Beijing between 1987 – 88, leading to panic among salaried workers that they could no longer afford staple goods.

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.

* 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.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

The 7800 was initially released in southern California in June 1984, following an announcement on May 21, 1984 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

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.

On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 (" NRRA "), which took effect on July 21, 2011 and was part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The report was disputed by representatives of the Consumer Federation of America, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Center for Economic Justice, for relying on data provided by the insurance industry.

A new advertising campaign was aired in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and the ECS itself was shown to the public at the January 1983 Consumer Electronic Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas.

Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001.

Consumer Empowerment was sued in the Netherlands in 2001 by the Dutch music publishing body, Buma / Stemra.

In October 2001 a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA.

According to Consumer Reports, the most common large size configuration for the 2011 model year was 7 passenger seating.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

There were plans to release the G7400 in the United States as the Odyssey³ and later as the Odyssey³ Command Center ; the system was demonstrated at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show and some prototypes have been found.

This now-discontinued ISR practice was informally labeled a scam and a fraud, and the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs issued a violation against ISR for engaging in a deceptive trade practice.

Paula Block, then of CBS Consumer Products, was responsible for approving proposals and all completed manuscripts for the licensed media tie-ins, and granted many such uses of TAS material since Roddenberry's passing.

Consumer patterns were also shifting at this time, as purchasing power was becoming stronger and more accessible to a wider range of families.

In Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council,, the Court overruled Valentine and ruled that commercial speech was entitled to First Amendment protection:

" At the same time, the investment community was worried about proposed legal reforms, including the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which dealt with matters such as credit card rates and lending requirements.

After the lawsuit was filed, the Consumer Affairs Department reviewed five to six years of the cemetery's annual inspection records and found no indication that graves had been disturbed.

Hyundai Santa Fe was awarded the Top Pick by Consumer Reports in 2008.

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

After selling it to Niklas Zennström from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark, it was introduced in March 2001 by their Dutch company Consumer Empowerment.