It's not a complete picture, any more than Rebaynia's picture is complete (because of the selection bias) because everyone wants to measure the difference in cost relative to inflation, but it's not about inflation, it's about purchasing power. In order to measure the degree to which inflation impacts people's spending habits you also need to know about salary increases and whether those salaries have kept up with inflation or not. So, to say that inflation is 18% and the cost of agencies has gone up 18% doesn't really mean anything unless you know whether salaries have gone up 18% or more, or whether they have only gone up 9%, for example. If the salary increases haven't kept up with inflation then purchasing power is less and consequently people can afford less of the extras, even if inflation and agency cost increases are exactly the same. To further complicate matters salary, inflation and rate adjustments vary by region, so you can't even really use federal stats reliably to give you a regional outlook. Honestly, people's anecdotal experiences on here are probably as good an indication as any if you take the entire community's comments into account as far as their spending goes. General consensus seems to be costs are up and so spending less on fun. Anybody who wants better numbers will need to do a much deeper dive than I'm willing to do. lol