Today’s post by Jacques Quass De Vos creates a measure of public inflation attention, counting the frequency of the word ‘inflation’ in South African newspapers and calculate the proportion of newspaper articles that contain one or more keywords associated with inflation.
Although inflation attention is down from its peak during the post-pandemic cost of living crisis, it remains at higher levels than observed before the cost of living crisis. As we show in another post, inflation-related news coverage correlates with inflation expectations.
