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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2011.24.5.745

Construction of an Economic Sentiment Indicator for the Korean Economy  

Moon, Hye-Jung (Economic Statistics Department, The Bank of Korea)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.24, no.5, 2011 , pp. 745-758 More about this Journal
Abstract
An Economic Sentiment Indicator(ESI) is a composite indicator of business survey indices(BSI) and consumer survey indices(CSI). The ESI designed to reflect economic agents' (this includes producers and consumers) overall perceptions of economic activity in a one-dimensional index. The European Commission has published an ESI since 1985. This paper demonstrates the construction of an ESI for the Korean economy. The BSI and CSI components (having a high correlation and a leading feature with respect to GDP) are selected to construct the ESI and they are aggregated using a weighted average and then scaled to have a long-term average of 100 and a standard deviation of 10. Thus values greater than 100 indicate an above-average economic sentiment and vice versa. The newly constructed Korean ESI that extends to January 2003 shows a good tracking performance of GDP and adequately reflects the overall perception of economic activity.
Keywords
Economic Sentiment Indicator(ESI); business survey index(BSI); onsumer survey index(CSI); gross domestic product(GDP);
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