Including income, the rate of interest and confidence – between different households and over time.
The consequences of inflation and deflation for consumers, workers, savers, lenders, firms and the economy as a whole.
The nature and causes of changes in the pattern of employment, for example increase in proportion of workers employed in the tertiary sector and formal economy as an economy develops; a greater proportion of women in the labour force due to changes in social attitudes; decline in the proportion employed in the public sector as a country moves towards a market economy.