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A variety of measures of national income and output are used in economics to estimate total economic activity in a country or region, including gross domestic product (GDP), Gross national income (GNI), net national income (NNI), and adjusted national income (NNI adjusted for natural resource depletion – also called as NNI at factor cost).
The Consumer Expenditure Survey was first collected over 130 years ago in 1888. It became a continuous survey in 1980. From the late 1800s until 1980 the survey had been administered at approximately ten-year intervals. [6] More information about the history of the Consumer Expenditure Survey is available on the program's history page.
National income and product accounts publications available on FRASER; The Nigerian Bureau of Economic Analysis,'A Guide to the National Income and Product Accounts of N Very helpful in understanding the accounts; also contains historical information and is an important source of information for this article.
To promote an understanding of, and to forecast changes in, the national economy; To provide a means of incorporating empirical measures of consumer expectations into models of spending and saving behavior; To gauge the economic expectations and probable future spending behavior of the consumer; To judge the consumer's level of optimism or ...
Although for many decades, it was customary to focus on GDP and other measures of national income, there has been growing interest in developing broad measures of economic well-being. National and international approaches include the Beyond GDP programme developed by the European Union , the Better Lives Compendium of Indicators developed by ...
Graphical representation of the consumption function, where a is autonomous consumption (affected by interest rates, consumer expectations, etc.), b is the marginal propensity to consume and Yd is disposable income. In economics, the consumption function describes a relationship between consumption and disposable income.
In economics, aggregate behavior refers to economy-wide sums of individual behavior. It involves relationships between economic aggregates such as national income, government expenditure, and aggregate demand. For example, the consumption function is a relationship between aggregate demand for consumption and aggregate disposable income.
In economics and particularly in consumer choice theory, the income-consumption curve (also called income expansion path and income offer curve) is a curve in a graph in which the quantities of two goods are plotted on the two axes; the curve is the locus of points showing the consumption bundles chosen at each of various levels of income.