South Africa Primary Consumer Sentiment Index - December 2016

The South Africa Primary Consumer Sentiment (“Consumer Confidence”) Index (“PCSI”) as measured by the Thomson Reuters/Ipsos PCSI for December,2016 is up 2.3 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 2.4 points; the PCSI Economic Expectations (“Expectations”) Sub-Index which is up 3.3 points; the PCSI Investment Climate (“Investment”) Sub-Index which is up 1.9 points; and the PCSI Current Personal Financial Conditions (“Current Conditions”) Sub-Index which is up 2.1 percentage points over last month.

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