A survey that uses credit card usage information as an index to index consumption trends. In the latter half of November, the rate of decrease in the index was due to the decline in consumption of eating out and travel due to the "third wave" of the spread of infection. It turned out that the recovery of consumption became slower.
Nowcast, a data analysis company, and JCB, a major credit card company, publish an index that looks at consumption trends after protecting privacy based on card usage information.
According to this, when comparing the index from November 16th to 30th with the same period of the previous year, the rate of decrease was -10.9%, which was 5.8 points worse than the first half of November.
By industry, "eating out" was minus 29.5%, which was 11 points worse than in the first half of November, and consumption at izakaya is particularly weak.
In the background, the movement to refrain from going out has spread due to the influence of the "third wave" of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and requests for shortening business hours to restaurants have been made in various places.
“Travel” was also minus 17.4%, down about 20 points from the first half of last month.
According to the company surveyed, "The number of newly infected people remains high, and'Go To Travel'will also be suspended nationwide, so there is concern that the recovery of consumption will slow down further in the future." I'm talking.