According to a survey that indexes consumption trends based on credit card usage information, the index in the first half of December was 15% of the same period of the previous year due to the serious spread of infection and the decline in consumption of travel and eating out. It was much lower than that of the first half of May last year.
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, the index from December 1st to 15th was 15.2% lower than the same period of the previous year, 5.1 points worse than the latter half of last November, which was the previous half month.
The rate of decline has been greater than -15% since the first half of May last year, when the effects of the suspension of business due to the state of emergency were strongly reflected.
By industry, “Travel” was -44.1%, a significant deterioration of 31 points, and “Eating out” was -37.4%, a deterioration of 8 points.
Regarding the background, the company surveyed points out that the movement to refrain from going out has spread due to the continued spread of infection, which is pointed out as the so-called "third wave" of the new coronavirus.
According to the company, "In the latter half of December, the operation of" Go To Travel "was stopped all over the country, and consumption seems to be in a difficult situation in general."