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Appendix table 1. Consumers' views and intentions (The appendix table was corrected on 27 December 2018)

	Average 10/1995-	Max. 10/1995-	Min. 10/1995-	12/2017	11/2018	12/2018	Outlook 1)
A1 Consumer confidence indicator, CCI = (B2+B4+B7+D2)/4	12.7	25.8	-6.5	24.0	18.3	16.1	+
A2 Old CCI = (B1+B2+B3+B4+C1)/5	6.9	20.6	-15.0	19.2	10.0	7.9	=
A3 Micro indicator = (B2+D1+D2)/3	25.9	33.4	9.5	31.0	33.0	32.5	++
A4 Macro indicator = (B4+B7)/2	1.0	22.8	-39.1	18.6	5.7	2.0	=
B1 Own economy now (balance)	4.0	9.8	-4.0	8.2	5.3	6.3	+
- Better (%)	23.4	30.6	16.4	27.4	25.1	25.7
- Worse (%)	16.4	22.7	11.4	15.3	15.7	15.8
B2 Own economy in 12 months' time (balance)	8.4	14.1	2.3	10.9	10.6	9.5	+
- Better (%)	25.9	33.4	18.2	29.6	29.0	28.4
- Worse (%)	11.3	17.7	6.6	11.1	11.2	13.0
B3 Finland's economy now (balance)	-1.1	29.5	-60.9	29.3	15.5	9.7	+
- Better (%)	28.1	62.1	2.0	60.8	42.1	34.1
- Worse (%)	27.3	88.5	4.2	7.8	12.2	15.8
B4 Finland's economy in 12 months' time (balance)	4.3	25.3	-27.1	21.7	0.3	-2.6	-
- Better (%)	32.2	57.3	11.6	51.0	25.3	24.1
- Worse (%)	22.1	57.3	6.0	8.2	24.2	27.5
B5 Inflation now (per cent)	2.2	5.8	-2.0	1.2	2.0	2.0
B6 Inflation in 12 months' time (per cent)	2.1	4.6	0.6	1.6	2.1	2.2
B7 Unemployment in Finland in 12 months' time (balance)	-2.4	27.6	-51.1	15.4	11.2	6.5	+
- Less (%)	31.2	60.8	6.4	47.0	41.5	35.2
- More (%)	33.3	83.3	6.9	16.1	18.7	21.7
B8 Own threat of unemployment now (balance)	-0.6	9.8	-18.8	5.1	6.4	5.6	+
- Decreased (%)	13.4	20.4	5.3	19.6	17.3	16.8
- Increased (%)	16.6	31.9	7.9	12.9	12.3	10.1
C1 Favourability of time for purchasing durables (balance)	18.8	41.8	-14.2	25.7	18.3	16.5	=
- Favourable time (%)	44.6	62.4	29.6	45.7	40.6	40.3
- Unfavourable time (%)	25.8	45.7	15.2	20.0	22.3	23.8
C2 Favourability of time for saving (balance)	11.4	36.8	-19.6	23.1	32.0	27.3	++
- Good time (%)	58.5	80.7	33.4	67.8	73.3	71.0
- Bad time (%)	35.9	58.5	15.5	26.3	21.5	24.6
C3 Favourability of time for raising a loan (balance)	18.5	42.0	-47.1	35.8	16.2	15.9	=
- Good time (%)	62.8	78.2	13.3	76.3	60.7	61.2
- Bad time (%)	30.1	83.4	12.1	17.4	32.2	31.8
D1 Household's financial situation now (balance)	29.0	37.3	14.7	34.2	37.3	37.1	++
- Can save (%)	60.4	70.8	38.6	66.8	70.8	69.8
- Uses savings or gets into debt (%)	6.8	10.1	4.5	6.0	6.2	5.9
D2 Household's saving possibilities in the next 12 months (balance)	40.2	52.2	10.9	47.9	51.1	50.8	++
- Can save (%)	74.5	82.3	56.6	79.5	80.1	80.2
- Cannot save (%)	23.7	40.3	16.5	19.4	18.0	18.9
D5 Household's intentions to raise a loan in the next 12 months (% of households)	13.1	17.8	9.1	13.3	11.6	12.1	-
- Yes, certainly (%)	5.6	8.5	3.1	5.8	5.0	5.4
- Possibly (%)	7.5	11.4	5.0	7.4	6.7	6.8
E1 Spending on durables, next 12 months vs last 12 months (balance)	-8.9	-2.4	-18.2	-3.1	-10.1	-10.6	-
- More (%)	21.3	30.8	13.9	22.9	18.4	18.7
- Less (%)	32.6	40.4	25.6	25.6	33.2	33.8
E2 Intentions to buy a car in the next 12 months (% of households)	16.7	21.7	12.7	19.3	16.4	14.4	--
- Very likely (%)	8.5	12.1	5.1	9.4	7.6	6.3
- Fairly likely (%)	8.3	10.4	5.3	9.8	8.8	8.1
E4 Intentions to buy a dwelling in the next 12 months (% of households)	7.0	11.3	4.1	6.8	7.0	6.0	-
- Yes, certainly (%)	3.0	5.2	1.3	2.6	3.5	2.9
- Possibly (%)	4.0	6.2	2.2	4.2	3.5	3.1
E5 Intentions to spend money on basic repairs of dwelling in the next 12 months (% of households)	18.8	27.0	9.8	18.0	17.7	17.6	-
- Very likely (%)	12.4	19.0	5.0	11.2	11.1	12.2
- Fairly likely (%)	6.4	9.1	3.2	6.8	6.6	5.5

1) Outlook: ++ very good, + good, = neutral, - poor, -- very poor; deviation of balance from average has been compared to standard deviation

Source: Consumer Survey 2018, December. Statistics Finland

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Updated 27.12.2018