62.1% of
respondents of a CBN survey have said that the economy may end up weaker
if the inflation rate is not promptly addressed.
The Nigerian economy may end up weaker on the short term if the current inflation rate is not appropriately curbed.
This was disclosed in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Inflation Attitudes Survey Report for the third quarter of 2020(Q3 2020).
The survey was conducted by the Statistics department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Highlights of the survey report:
- 62.1% of the respondents strongly believe that the economy may end
up weaker than it was at the beginning of the year, if the prevailing
high inflation rate is not promptly addressed.
- A majority of the households had no idea on the direction of
interest rates in the past 12 months. For example, those who believe
that interest rates had risen in the last 12 months are 35.3%, 8.3% of
the respondents believe that interest rates had fallen, and 43.4% had no
idea of what happened in the last 12 months.
- On the expectations about how the interest rates on bank loans and
savings would behave over the next 12 months, 29.8% are of the opinion
that the rates will rise, while 16.7% believe that the rates will fall,
and 40.6% had no idea of what would happen.
- In deciding which one is better, more of the respondents still
prefer higher interest rates than higher inflation. For example, 25.6%
prefer interest rates to rise to keep inflation down, 43.3% opined that
they prefer interest rates to rise faster, and 31.1%of the respondent
had no clue at all.
What you should know
- The Statistics department of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on
quarterly basis, conducts surveys to articulate the views of households
on changes in prices of goods and services, including interest rates in
the last twelve months and their expectations of changes over the next
twelve months
- The Q3 2020 Inflation Attitudes Survey was conducted between
September 21 and 30th with a random sample size of 2,070 Households from
207 Enumeration Areas (EAs) across the country and had a response rate
of 98.1%.
- The opinions of the respondents are vital in appreciating the level
of understanding of the general public regarding the country’s monetary
policy framework and useful for effective monetary policy formulation.
- Recently, Nairametrics had reported
that Nigeria’s inflation rate has risen to 14.23% in October 2020 as
against 13.71% recorded in September 2020, according to NBS report.
Johnson Uche
No comments :
Post a Comment