In January, the Davivienda Confidence Indicator (ICD) on the country’s economic situation presented a moderate decline compared to December.
This is explainedmost likely, due to the strong inflationary pressures in the family shopping basket experienced by Colombian households.
Of the people who responded to the survey, 20% felt that their confidence had improved compared to the previous month; on the contrary, 22.6% affirmed that it decreased, giving a balance of -2.6%.
the level reached by the Confidence Indicator is well above the historical average (-21.1%).
For the month of January, the perception of the economic situation registered a slight increase compared to the month of December.
This figure becomes the best record since the arrival of the pandemic.
The percentage of those who believe that the economic situation is very good or good decreased from 25.1% in December to 20.8% in January.
For its part, the percentage that stated that the economic situation is bad or very bad fell from 26.7% in December to 22.1% in January.
Under these conditions, the balance between those who say that the situation is very good or good, and those who think that it is very bad or bad, increased to -1.3%.
With the consolidated data for the month of January, It was observed that the percentage of those who think that it is a good time to acquire a financial obligation decreased compared to the previous month.
Of the total number of respondents, 22.2% responded favorably to this question, while in December this percentage had been 26.5%. The proportion reached in January is higher than the historical average of the indicator, which is 15.7%.
The survey has been carried out since 2016 with 2,000 bank clients.
BRIEFCASE
