Doing thesis work trying to find any data the indicates either
consumer confidence, or purchasing habits or propensities for the past
10 years on low priced items -- between $10 and $25 --- all my
reasearch indicates the price point is too low to have any correlation
with interest rates, employment, housing etc. etc. -- Looking for some
data points to look at... Help pls.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 05 Jun 2004 08:17 PDT

Jim,

I don't quite understand what you're looking for.  Can you clarify
your question for us?

For instance, is gasoline a low-priced item?  Would data that relates
gas prices to consumer confidence meet your needs?

If not, perhaps you can clarify in more detail what you need.

Thanks.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by jim1946-ga on 06 Jun 2004 09:48 PDT

I mean maybe purchasing a $10 - $25 item like a membership in an
association or perhaps an intangible like a club membership. Probably
not a commodity item and probably not gasoline. It needs to be a
"selective purchase" item, not a necessity, which I would call gas.
Here is where I am going -- I think consumer confidence data, housing
starts, CPI, interest rates, unemployment, etc. etc. have almost zero
impact on the $10 to $25 area in sales of things like club memberships
or assoiation membership -- as all data that I can find only indicates
that flucuations of considered purchase items are linked with some
published data like unemployment etc. Looking for the data that migh
coincide with a low priced item.

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Clarification of Question by jim1946-ga on 06 Jun 2004 10:49 PDT

......... on second thought, maybe gas prices do work.......maybe.