North America - Primary Consumer Sentiment Index - March 2017
The Thomson Reuters/Ipsos Monthly Primary Consumer Sentiment Index (PCSI) was released today for the following countries: Canada and the United States.
Canada
The Canada Primary Consumer Sentiment (“Consumer Confidence”) Index (“PCSI”) as measured by the Thomson Reuters/Ipsos PCSI for March,2017 is up 1.9 percentage points over last month.
The monthly PCSI result is driven by the aggregation of the four, weighted, sub-Indices: the PCSI Employment Confidence (“Jobs”) Sub- Index which is up 1.4 points; the PCSI Economic Expectations (“Expectations”) Sub-Index which is up 1.7 points; the PCSI Investment Climate (“Investment”) Sub-Index which is up 2 points; and the PCSI Current Personal Financial Conditions (“Current Conditions”) Sub-Index which is up 2.1 percentage points over last month.
US
The US Primary Consumer Sentiment (“Consumer Confidence”) Index (“PCSI”) as measured by the Thomson Reuters/Ipsos PCSI for March,2017 is down 1.1 percentage points over last month.
The monthly PCSI result is driven by the aggregation of the four, weighted, sub-Indices: the PCSI Employment Confidence (“Jobs”) Sub- Index which is down 1.9 points; the PCSI Economic Expectations (“Expectations”) Sub-Index which is down 2.1 points; the PCSI Investment Climate (“Investment”) Sub-Index which is down 0.7 points; and the PCSI Current Personal Financial Conditions (“Current Conditions”) Sub-Index which is down 0.2 percentage points over last month.
