Consumers will be more shy in the Christmas shopping

The indebtedness is pointed to by 40% of consumers in national consumption habits poll, da Boa Vista SCPC, as the main cause not to go shopping this Christmas and new year. The previous year, this percentage reached 37%. Unemployment is the second reason, from 21% in 2015 to 29%, a high of 8 percentage points (percentage points). The fact of not buying gifts have to prioritize the payment of bills of the House, such as tuition, health insurance and other, also increased from 11% to 17%.
The research of Boa Vista SCPC also identified in the Division for social classes the reasons that cause the containment of expenses between the period of Christmas and New Year. For respondents of classes C and D/and the main reason is the debt, with 42% and 43% of the entries, respectively. To respondents of classes A and B indicate the indebtedness, unemployment, high inflation and spending restraint as the main factors, each with 25%.