According to a survey on individual lifestyle consciousness conducted by the Bank of Japan, the percentage of people who felt that prices had risen exceeded 81%.
In addition, 84% of the respondents answered that prices would rise one year later, indicating that people are becoming more aware that prices will continue to rise.
The Bank of Japan conducts a questionnaire survey every three months for individuals aged 20 and over nationwide in order to explore individual lifestyle consciousness, and this time it is about 1 from February 4th to March 2nd. We received responses from 2177 people each month.
According to this, the percentage of those who answered that their feelings about prices have increased compared to a year ago increased by 3.8 points from the previous survey to 81.2%.
This is the highest level in six and a half years since the survey in September 2015.
In addition, the number of people who answered that prices would rise one year later increased by 5.5 points from the previous time to 84.3%, the highest level in about 14 years since the June 2008 survey.
Looking at the breakdown,
▽ 20.4% of the respondents answered "significantly increase" and
63.9% answered ▽ "a little increase"
, raising awareness among people that prices will continue to rise. I found out that.
The Bank of Japan analyzes that in addition to the soaring gasoline prices, the prices of personal items such as groceries are rising one after another, and more and more people are feeling the rise in prices, and will carefully look at the impact on households. increase.