A survey of individual lifestyle consciousness conducted by the Bank of Japan early last month found that more people answered that their spending had "increased" compared to a year ago.
In Tokyo and other areas, the third state of emergency was declared until the end of the month, but this seems to be the result of increased consumption-related behavior such as going out.
The Bank of Japan is conducting a questionnaire survey of individuals aged 20 and over nationwide in order to explore individual lifestyle consciousness, and this time around 2,300 people responded in the one month period until the 2nd of last month. ..
According to this, 29.8% of respondents answered that their spending “increased” compared to a year ago, an increase of 3 points from the previous March survey.
Conversely, 23.4% of respondents said their spending was "decreased" compared to a year ago, a decrease of 2.1 points.
The Bank of Japan said, "During this investigation, the third state of emergency was declared in Tokyo and other places, but since the first declaration, there may be more consumption-related behaviors such as going out." I will.
On the other hand, regarding the economy one year later, 20.4% of the respondents answered that they would "become better", a decrease of 2.7 points, and 35.3%, an increase of 3.7 points, that they answered "worse". There is an increasing number of cautious views.