Forecasting with Business and Consumer Survey Data

In a context of growing uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, opinion businesses and consumers about expected development main variables that affect their activity becomes essential for economic forecasting. this paper, we review research carried out in field, placing special emphasis on recent lines work focused exploitation predictive content tendency surveys. The study concludes with an evaluation forecasting performance quarterly unemployment expectations euro area, which are obtained means machine learning methods. analysis reveals potential new analytical techniques business consumer surveys