Research Discussion Paper – RDP 2001-09 What do Sentiment Surveys Measure?

Contents

• Preamble and Overview
• Previous Research
• What Explains Sentiment?
• What Does Sentiment Measure
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Variables Considered in Section 3
• Appendix B: Additional Results
• References

The authors would like to thank Gary Morgan of Roy Morgan Research for kindly providing some of the data for this project. Views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Reserve Bank. Use of any results from this paper should clearly attribute the work to the authors and not to the Reserve Bank of Australia.