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Consumer Confidence Survey
This survey is carried out every month to gain a quick understanding of shifts in consumer perception as a tool in evaluating economic trends.
Please see the"explanation" page of this survey for more details.
1. Consumer Confidence Index
2. Price expectations a year ahead
Time series data
Summary of the latest survey
The Survey of December 2021 was released on January 5th, 2022 New
This survey was conducted on December 15th, 2021.
It covered 8,400 households (Households of two or more persons are 5,712,One-person households are 2,688).
The response rate was 82.8% (Households of two or more persons: 81.9%, One-person households: 84.8%).
1. Consumer Confidence Index, Consumer Perception Indices
The Consumer Confidence Index (seasonally adjusted series) in December 2021 was 39.1, down 0.1 points from the previous month.
The categories of the Consumer Perception Indices (seasonally adjusted series), which are comprised of the Consumer Confidence Index in December are as follows;
Overall livelihood: 38.6 (up 0.5 from the previous month)
Income growth: 39.9 (up 0.5 from the previous month)
Employment: 41.5 (down 1.4 from the previous month)
Willingness to buy durable goods: 36.5 (the same as the previous month)
The percentage of a group who expect "Go up" in December was 88.5%, an increase of 0.9% points from the previous month.
The percentage of a group who expect "stay the same about 0%" in December was 7.1%, a decrease of 0.4% points from the previous month.
The percentage of a group who expect "Go down" in December was 2.7%, an increase of 0.2% points from the previous month.
The Development of the Consumer Confidence Index (Households of two or more persons, original series) (Excel:48KB)
The Development of the Consumer Confidence Index (Households of two or more persons, seasonally adjusted series) (Excel:50KB)
Price Expectations (Excel:112KB)
The survey method was changed to the "method using mail and online together" from October 2018.
The survey method was changed to the "mail survey method" from April 2013.
At the same time, the released time-series tables were reviewed from April 2013. (The time-series data of Tokyo was scrapped.)
The change of survey method from April 2013 has some impacts on the results of the survey.
The results of April 2013 survey were compared to those of the examination survey * on March 2013.
* The examination survey was carried out from July 2012 to March 2013 via the mail survey method for the purpose of analysis of the impact on the results by the change of survey method.
The summary and data of the examination survey
【reference】Connection method between the new series (from April 2013 survey)and the old one(until March 2013 survey)(added on 13 June,2013)
Questions about this survey can be made to HERE
Economic and Social Research Institute
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