Vivek's Commentary

Is it a Consumer Confidence, Consumer Expectation and Consumer Sentiments or Voters Confidence, Voters Expectation and Voters Sentiments?  Reserve Bank of India conducts the Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS). RBI conducts this survey in thirteen major cities Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, and Thiruvananthapuram. The main aim of this survey is to capture the perceptions and expectations of the general economic situation, the employment scenario, the overall price situation, and own income and spending. The last data released by RBI is for November 2019.  Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt Ltd (CMIE) also tries to analyze the consumer sentiments through Consumer Pyramids Survey (CPHS). This survey is a longitudinal survey. CMIE provides the index for consumer sentiments, index for consumer expectation and index for current economic conditions. The perception about the economic condition (according