After Japan’s consumption tax rose from 5% to 8%, did it affect wages, prices, and household spending?
Publication Date
January 11, 2015
Project Client
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
Project Description
Produced as news content for NHK. After Japan’s consumption tax rose from 5% to 8%, did it affect wages, prices, and household spending? Titled “Household Budgets and Prices, at a Touch,” it presents the data with restrained animation. Best viewed on a desktop.
Source data:
- Wage data: Monthly Labour Survey (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
- Price data: Consumer Price Index (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications); Nissay Basic Research Institute
- Spending data: Family Income and Expenditure Survey (Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)