Consumer Inflation Expectations API
What households in each economy expect for prices and for the wider economy — the OECD consumer surveys as an API, live, no key. Every month consumers are asked whether they expect prices to rise faster or slower over the year ahead, and whether they think the general economic situation will improve or worsen. The OECD harmonises the answers into balances — the share answering up/better minus the share answering down/worse, on a scale around zero. Consumer inflation expectations are one of the most closely watched soft indicators in central banking: if households start expecting higher inflation, they bring forward purchases and demand higher wages, which can make inflation self-fulfilling, so policymakers track whether expectations stay anchored. The economic-situation balance is the household read on where the economy is heading, and it leads consumer spending. The inflation endpoint ranks every economy by its consumer inflation-expectations balance — where households most expect prices to climb. The economy endpoint ranks by the economic-situation outlook. The country endpoint gives one economy's inflation and economic-situation balances side by side with the month-on-month change. Each reading carries its own month and discontinued series are excluded, so the board is genuinely current. The consumer-survey / inflation-expectations cut — distinct from the composite Business & Consumer Confidence board (which gives only the headline confidence index, not the inflation-expectations component), the manufacturing business-survey board, the realised-inflation feeds, and the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Balances are in percentage points; figures are monthly.
api.oanor.com/consumersurvey-api
