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source: Cabinet Office (Economic and Social Research Institute)
url: https://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/stat/shouhi/shouhi-e.html
document_type: html
date_retrieved: 2026-04-30
period: April 2026
parent_publication: Consumer Confidence Survey
indicators_covered: [Consumer Confidence Index, Overall livelihood, Income growth, Employment, Willingness to buy durable goods, Price expectations]
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# Consumer Confidence Survey, April 2026

**Release Date:** April 30, 2026  
**Survey Date:** April 15, 2026  
**Coverage:** 8,400 households (5,376 multi-person, 3,024 one-person)  
**Response Rate:** 75.5%

## Consumer Confidence Index

**The Consumer Confidence Index (seasonally adjusted) in April 2026 was 32.2, down 1.1 points from the previous month (33.3).**

### Consumer Perception Indices (seasonally adjusted)

- **Overall livelihood:** 28.2 (down 1.5 from previous month)
- **Income growth:** 39.8 (unchanged from previous month)
- **Employment:** 37.4 (down 0.2 from previous month)
- **Willingness to buy durable goods:** 23.2 (down 2.8 from previous month)

## Price Expectations (Households of two or more persons, original series)

- **Expect prices to "Go up":** 93.6% (+0.5 percentage points from previous month)
- **Expect prices to "Stay the same about 0%":** 2.3% (-0.4 percentage points)
- **Expect prices to "Go down":** 2.3% (-0.2 percentage points)

## Notes

- Survey method changed to "mail and online together" from October 2018.
- Survey method changed to "mail survey method" from April 2013.
- Time-series data from April 2013 onward are based on the new method and are not directly comparable with pre-April 2013 data.

## Verification

- Payload `actual`: 32.2 — **confirmed**
- Payload `previous`: 33.3 — **confirmed** (March 2026 value from page context)
- Payload `forecast`: 33.1 — not in source document (externally provided forecast)

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*Data extracted from official Cabinet Office ESRI Consumer Confidence Survey page. Full source HTML preserved in `raw/403658.html`.*