AFFORDABILITY INDEX
A measurement of the capability of the population to afford the purchase of a specific item, a house for example, in relation to the income of the population. The value of 100 is used in the affordability index to mark the position of an individual earning a population's median income, values below 100 indicates that an item is more affordable while values over 100 indicates that an item is less likely to be affordable.
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Held by Production
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| Time | Country | Indices | Period |
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| 01:01 | BRC Retail Sales Monitor | Sep | |
| 01:50 | Bank Lending | Sep | |
| 01:50 | Domestic Corporate Goods Price Index | Sep | |
| 02:30 | NAB Business Confidence | Sep | |
| 02:30 | Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes | ||
| 08:00 | CPI | Sep | |
| 08:00 | Harmonized CPI | Sep | |
| 12:00 | NFIB Small Business Index | Sep | |
| 16:00 | Existing Home Sales | Sep |


