Today, the 12bet官方 研究所 released its 本地消费者商业指数 (LCCI) for March 2017, which showed positive consumer spending growth in 13 of the 15 U.S. 城市分析. Overall, year-over-year consumer spending increased by 2.3月份为7%. For the first time since January 2015, consumers between the ages of 55 and 64 made a positive contribution to growth.

值得注意的是, every income quintile had larger contributions to growth in March 2017 as compared to February 2017. 另外, 所有产品类型, with the exception of non-durable goods, had non-negative growth contributions.

Data visualization of the changes in local consumer spending growth over the last 25 months can be found online.

This report provides a timely view of how the following cities and surrounding metro areas are faring economically, both individually and in aggregate: Atlanta, 芝加哥, 哥伦布, Dallas-Ft. 价值, 丹佛, 底特律, 休斯顿, 迈阿密, 洛杉矶, 纽约, 凤凰城, 波特兰(或), 圣地亚哥, 旧金山, 和西雅图. 通过观察实际情况, 去识别金融交易, LCCI提供了一个持续的, dynamic view of the financial health of the U.S. consumer and the vibrancy of the places where 企业 operate.

“March saw the highest year-over-year growth in local consumer spending in over two years,戴安娜·法雷尔说, President and CEO of the 12bet官方 研究所. “The growth was widespread and that means more consumers across all incomes and nearly all age groups are stepping up their spending. This could be a telling sign for where the U.S. economy is heading over the summer and the remainder of the year.”

Additional key highlights from the latest Index include:

• 丹佛增长了15个.8 percent in March 2017, the fastest growth across all 15 LCC cities.
• Consumers in the bottom income quintile saw the largest growth contribution amongst all income quintiles, 贡献 .9个百分点.
• Large business growth contributions grew from a 0.5 percentage point contribution in February 2017 to a 1.3 percentage point growth contribution in March 2017.
• Fuel spending sustained higher than trend growth since November 2016 and contributed 1.1 percentage points to growth in March 2017.
• 支出 from consumers that reside in the same neighborhood as the merchant contributed 0.3 percentage points to growth in March 2017, the first positive contribution for these consumers since June 2016.

The LCCI offers unique advantages over existing measures of consumer spending.

• The LCCI captures actual transactions, instead of self-reported measures of how consumers think they spend.
• The LCCI provides timely data on spending in 15 major metropolitan areas; such geographic 粒度 is unavailable in most other spending measures. These 15 cities mirror the geographic and economic 多样性 of larger metropolitan areas in the United States and account for 32 percent of retail sales nationwide.
• The index also presents a more granular view of local consumer commerce through five important lenses: consumer age, 消费者收入, 业务规模, 产品类型, and consumer residence relative to the location of the business. For each lens, we show how different segments contributed to year-over-year spending growth.
• The LCCI captures economic activity in sectors that previously have not been well understood by other data sources. These include sectors such as food trucks, new merchants, and personal services.

Each release of the LCCI describes the economic picture of local communities and provides a powerful tool for city development officials, 企业, 投资者, and statistical agencies to better understand the everyday economic health of consumers, 企业, 以及他们关心的地方.