Index of Consumer Confidence: April 2012

The monthly Index of Consumer Confidence is constructed from responses to four attitudinal questions posed to a random sample of Canadian households.

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Following three consecutive increases, the Index of Consumer Confidence reversed course in April. Driven lower by strongly negative responses to the question on future job prospects and to a partial reversal of last month’s improved outlook on the major purchases question, the index now stands at 75.0 (2002 = 100), 4.5 points lower than in March.