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A Fourth of Slovak Households Live on Debt or Off Savings
Wednesday 25 August 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, August 25 (TASR) - A Slovak Statistics Office survey released Wednesday reveals that 42 percent of the country's households save regularly, around 34 percent of consumers makes ends meet financially and 23 percent take on debt or live off their savings.
Asking consumers whether they will manage to save some money in the near future, Consumer Barometer has further shown a third of respondents answered in the affirmative. No less than 64 percent, however, do not expect to be able to save anything in the course of the year.
Barometer also canvassed views of Slovaks on the country's unemployment situation – on 12.3 percent last month. A total of 43 percent respondents believe it will rise still further in the next year, while a fifth anticipate the opposite and 32 percent see the level staying put.
The figures, too, indicate that 18 percent of consumers have sensed improvement in their financial standing over the past 12 months, 38 percent take the opposite view and, according to 44 percent of households, their situation remained unaltered.
Some 15 percent of the surveyed expect improvement in their financial status, whereas 51 percent and 29 percent of the surveyed see their situation as unchanged or unfavourable.
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