In a survey that indexes consumption trends based on credit card usage information, the index in the first half of last month was more than 18% lower than the same period in the previous year.

Due to the state of emergency caused by the spread of the new coronavirus, travel and eating out worsened, and entertainment and retail consumption also fell.

Nowcasting, 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 it, the index from the 1st to the 15th of last month was 18.5% lower than the same period of the previous year.



Looking at the index by field,


▽ "Travel" was minus 70.8%,


▽ "Eating out" was minus 46.3%,


▽ "Transportation" was minus 37.9%, and it was released to 11 prefectures such as Tokyo from last month. It seems to be the effect of the state of emergency.



Furthermore,


▽ "Retail" which was + 2.7% in the latter half of December last year


decreased to

-8.7%, and

▽ "Entertainment" also decreased by more than 20 points from the latter half of December to -32.9%.



According to the company surveyed, "The impact of the state of emergency has been significant, especially in the service industry, and in particular, eating out has deteriorated to the level when the declaration was issued in April last year. Consumption will continue to decline, especially in the service industry. Is a concern. "