{
  "id": "consumer-confidence.measured",
  "term": "consumer confidence",
  "sense": "measured",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 17,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "The reach to buy that the members of a collective self report when asked, a report that moves what they then buy.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "morale.collective",
      "reach.action",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "measure.quantitative",
      "buy.economic",
      "member.social",
      "report.information",
      "asks.social",
      "motion.movement",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "Households' self-reads of their reach are asked for and summed into a number; since each member acts on its own read, the number partly makes the spending it reports.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a self-read of reach turned into a published number",
      "a report that moves the thing it reports on"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index and the University of Michigan's Index of Consumer Sentiment are both built from households' answers about present conditions and expectations.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "morale.collective",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "morale measured among members acting as buyers"
    },
    {
      "id": "investor-sentiment.read",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "same self-read, held by investors and also read from prices"
    },
    {
      "id": "feel-good-factor.rising",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the feel-good factor is the unmeasured, political reading of the same rise"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "consumer confidence",
    "consumer sentiment"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-consumer-confidence.measured"
}