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The public opinion survey on folks’s lives by the Cabinet Office additionally discovered that 28.1% of respondents assume that their lifestyle is within the lower-middle a part of most of the people, the best degree in 35 years, whereas 46.7% answered center, 14.2% upper-middle, 8.7% low and 1.7% excessive.
People fear most about their very own well being, cited by 63.8% of all respondents, adopted by plans for all times after retirement, picked by 62.8%, and the outlook for future revenue and property, chosen by 58.0%.
Meanwhile, the share of respondents glad or considerably glad with their revenue or income was 34.9%, up 3.5 proportion factors from the report low posted the earlier yr. The share of those that answered dissatisfied or considerably dissatisfied declined 3.5 factors to 64.5%.
Some within the authorities imagine that these outcomes recommend constructive results of pay hikes. But requested what coverage measures the federal government ought to put emphasis on, the largest proportion, at 66.1%, selected steps towards inflation — the identical because the yr earlier than.
The survey has been performed since fiscal 1957, with the newest being the 67th version.
The survey was performed by mail from Aug. 8 to Sept. 15 with 3,000 Japanese nationals age 18 or over nationwide. Valid responses had been obtained from 61%.
Since the survey was beforehand performed in individual, the Cabinet Office stated that easy comparisons can’t be made between the newest outcomes and previous knowledge.
