About CARTS
CARTS provides a summary measure of multiple high-frequency indicators for consumer spending (including payment card transactions, retail foot traffic, gas sales, and consumer sentiment). Learn more about the data and methodologies underlying this index.
For more details on CARTS v. 2.1, see the recent Chicago Fed Insights article. Later this year, we will update the accompanying Chicago Fed Working Paper No. 2021-05 as well. The current version of the working paper serves as legacy documentation for CARTS v. 1.0.
More on CARTS
What Was in Your Holiday CARTS? Resuming Our Index Tracking National Retail Spending
Introducing CARTS: A New Index Tracking National Retail Spending
Tracking U.S. Consumers in Real Time with a New Weekly Index of Retail Trade (REVISED November 2021)
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