The Cabinet Office listens to the 8400 households nationwide every month 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 by 0.6 points from the previous month by households excluding living alone, and it improved to 44.5 for the second consecutive month.
This is the level since September 2013 four years ago.

The Cabinet Office is concerned about this because the view that the stock price rises and business performance is good and income will increase in the future as well.

For this reason, the Cabinet Office has revised upwards on the keynote judgment on consumer sentiment to the phrase "that it is picking up" from "it is almost flat" so far.

Also, regarding the outlook for prices after one year, the households who said "rising" exceeded the previous month by 1.3 points to 77.5%, and the price rises The ratio of doing it continues to be high.