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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Swaziland Lilangeni
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| Time | Country | Indices | Period |
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| 06:30 | Tertiary Industry Index | Apr | |
| 08:00 | Wholesale Price Index | May | |
| 08:30 | Producer & Import Prices | May | |
| 09:00 | SECO Consumer Confidence | May | |
| 10:00 | Trade Balance | Apr | |
| 11:00 | Current Account (sa) | Apr | |
| 11:00 | Industrial Production | Apr | |
| 14:15 | Housing Starts | May | |
| 14:30 | NY Fed Empire State manufacturing index | Jun |
