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Results of the 88th Opinion Survey on the General Public's Views and Behavior (December 2021 Survey)

January 11, 2022
Public Relations Department
Bank of Japan

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Survey Outline

Survey period : From November 5 to December 1, 2021.
Population of the Survey : Individuals living in Japan who are at least 20 years of age.
Sample size : 4,000 people (2,216 people [i.e., 55.4 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 AgoPercent, percentage points
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Have improved (A)	1.0	2.2	2.5	5.2
Have remained the same	27.6	33.4	38.6	43.2
Have worsened (B)	70.4	63.8	57.8	51.0
D.I. (A) minus (B)	-69.4	-61.6	-55.3	-45.8

Outlook for Economic Conditions One Year from NowPercent, percentage points
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Will improve (A)	23.1	20.4	16.6	26.0
Will remain the same	44.3	43.6	46.1	52.5
Will worsen (B)	31.6	35.3	36.4	21.0
D.I. (A) minus (B)	-8.5	-14.9	-19.8	5.0

Impression of Present Household Circumstances Compared with One Year AgoPercent, percentage points
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Have become better off (A)	6.3	5.3	6.8	5.8
Difficult to say	55.0	56.4	55.5	53.4
Have become worse off (B)	38.0	37.3	36.3	40.0
D.I. (A) minus (B)	-31.7	-32.0	-29.5	-34.2

Perception of the Present Price Levels Compared with One Year AgoPercent
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Have gone up significantly	5.2	6.6	8.9	16.6
Have gone up slightly	43.9	49.8	52.6	60.8
Have remained almost unchanged	44.3	38.0	32.9	19.7
Have gone down slightly	5.0	3.8	2.8	1.5
Have gone down significantly	0.6	0.3	0.6	0.5

Outlook for Price Levels One Year from NowPercent
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Will go up significantly	5.8	7.7	8.4	13.4
Will go up slightly	56.6	59.1	59.8	65.4
Will remain almost unchanged	30.6	27.2	24.8	17.4
Will go down slightly	5.8	4.0	3.6	2.8
Will go down significantly	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.1

One of the Bank's Objectives Is to Achieve Price StabilityPercent
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Know about it	-	29.8	-	28.8
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	-	44.0	-	46.1
Have never heard of it	-	25.8	-	24.8

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
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Know about it	18.1	21.7	18.4	21.3
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	29.3	31.0	26.7	29.3
Have never heard of it	51.6	46.9	53.9	49.1

The Bank Has Been Implementing Aggressive Monetary Easing Measures to Achieve the Price Stability Target of 2 Percent Percent
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Know about it	23.0	35.8	21.8	34.3
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	33.2	38.2	31.1	39.7
Have never heard of it	42.7	25.4	46.1	25.7

The Bank Has Been Conducting "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control" Percent
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Know about it	13.8	19.2	13.0	18.3
Have read or heard of it, but do not know much about it	25.5	33.9	25.5	34.5
Have never heard of it	59.4	46.4	60.3	46.7

Confidence in the BankPercent
	85th survey (Mar 2021)	86th survey (Jun 2021)	87th survey (Sep 2021)	88th survey (Dec 2021)
Confident	-	13.4	-	12.7
Somewhat confident	-	30.8	-	32.0
Difficult to say	-	46.7	-	46.8
Not particularly confident	-	6.1	-	5.2
Not confident	-	2.2	-	2.3

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