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Results of the 78th Opinion Survey on the General Public's Views and Behavior (June 2019 Survey)

July 5, 2019
Public Relations Department
Bank of Japan

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Survey Outline

Survey period : From May 9 to June 4, 2019.
Population of the Survey : Individuals living in Japan who are at least 20 years of age.
Sample size : 4,000 people (2,050 people [i.e., 51.3 percent of the overall sample size] provided valid responses to questions).
Sampling method : Stratified two-stage random sampling method.
Survey methodology : Questionnaire survey (mail survey method).

Impression of Present Economic Conditions Compared with One Year Ago Percent, percentage points
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Have improved (A)	7.4	7.3	4.8	3.7
Have remained the same	71.3	70.7	70.9	67.1
Have worsened (B)	20.7	21.6	24.0	28.7
D.I. (A) minus (B)	-13.3	-14.3	-19.2	-25.0

Outlook for Economic Conditions One Year from Now Percent, percentage points
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Will improve (A)	9.4	7.8	8.7	7.0
Will remain the same	63.3	51.9	51.3	49.4
Will worsen (B)	26.5	39.8	39.3	43.1
D.I. (A) minus (B)	-17.1	-32.0	-30.6	-36.1

Impression of Present Household Circumstances Compared with One Year Ago Percent, percentage points
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Have become better off (A)	7.2	6.4	6.5	6.0
Difficult to say	53.0	55.0	53.0	52.9
Have become worse off (B)	39.1	38.1	40.0	40.5
D.I. (A) minus (B)	-31.9	-31.7	-33.5	-34.5

Perception of the Present Price Levels Compared with One Year Ago Percent
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Have gone up significantly	11.1	10.4	8.4	10.0
Have gone up slightly	58.0	59.2	59.6	61.2
Have remained almost unchanged	28.8	28.4	29.9	26.0
Have gone down slightly	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.8
Have gone down significantly	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.5

Outlook for Price Levels One Year from Now Percent
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Will go up significantly	9.3	10.0	11.3	11.7
Will go up slightly	66.7	67.5	67.4	68.8
Will remain almost unchanged	20.9	19.6	18.1	16.6
Will go down slightly	1.9	1.9	2.2	2.1
Will go down significantly	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4

One of the Bank's Objectives Is to Achieve Price Stability Percent
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Know about it	-	33.6	-	30.5
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	-	42.5	-	45.7
Have never heard of it	-	23.8	-	23.6

The Bank Has Set the Price Stability Target at 2 Percent in terms of the Year-on-Year Rate of Change in the CPI Percent
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Know about it	30.6	28.5	26.0	26.2
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	37.5	29.9	35.2	33.0
Have never heard of it	31.4	41.2	38.2	40.6

The Bank Has Been Implementing Aggressive Monetary Easing Measures to Achieve the Price Stability Target of 2 Percent Percent
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Know about it	30.9	39.5	26.0	38.6
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	41.0	38.2	38.1	38.0
Have never heard of it	27.7	22.0	35.1	23.0

The Bank Has Been Conducting "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control" Percent
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Know about it	20.1	21.8	16.5	20.8
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	34.7	37.1	31.8	34.7
Have never heard of it	44.4	40.7	50.4	44.2

Confidence in the Bank Percent
	75th survey (Sep 2018)	76th survey (Dec 2018)	77th survey (Mar 2019)	78th survey (Jun 2019)
Confident	-	13.0	-	15.1
Somewhat confident	-	28.9	-	28.4
Difficult to say	-	47.3	-	47.0
Not particularly confident	-	7.5	-	7.0
Not confident	-	2.6	-	2.0

Inquiries

Planning and Analysis Group, Public Relations Department

E-mail : prdmail@boj.or.jp