Graph 1  Looking at labour markets, one might also ask why the concern. Unemployment rates in most advanced economies are the lowest they have been in many decades, and businesses are finding it more difficult to fill jobs (Graph 2).
We find that households provide values that are in line with official releases.7 Concerning firms, in our quarterly Survey of Inflation and Growth Expectations we ask companies to provide point estimates for both nationwide HICP inflation at different horizons, and own selling price changes.