The Cabinet Office listens to 8400 households nationwide every month to learn more about their lives for the next six months, examines the motivation for shopping, and presents them as a "consumer attitude index".

According to it, the index of last month improved 43.9 for households excluding living alone by 0.6 points over the previous month for the first time in two months.

About this, the Cabinet Office analyzes that the influence on sightseeing etc. which was concerned about Tohoku and Hokuriku due to heavy rain in August of the previous month was resolved, it is analyzed.

However, the level of indicators has not changed since Spring's Spring, and consumer sentiment remains unchanged, keeping the keynote judgment that it is "almost flat".

Also, as for the outlook for prices after one year, the households who said that "rising" exceeded the previous month by 0.1 points, continuing to be high at 76.2% , The households who declined "to drop" also increased by 1.4 points compared to the previous month, and it was 4.9%.

The Cabinet Office says that both price increases and price cuts have occurred between retailers and service industries, so it is said that households divided the way they accepted it.