[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:what-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Fmost-consumers-spend-more-despite-crisis":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":8,"path":9,"content_type":10,"locale":11,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":12,"page_created_at":13,"published_at":12,"edit_url":14,"breadcrumbs":15,"seo":28,"body_blocks":36,"call_to_action":42,"categories":49,"labels":50,"owner":7,"authors":51,"related_pages":52,"related_sites":53,"in_subsite":54,"contact_page_url":55,"banner_message":56},5579,"most-consumers-spend-more-despite-crisis","Most consumers spend more despite crisis - June 11, 2009",null,"","\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Fmost-consumers-spend-more-despite-crisis","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T13:42:03.040735+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F5579\u002Fedit\u002F",[16,19,22,25,27],{"title":17,"slug":18},"What We Do","what-we-do",{"title":20,"slug":21},"News and Stories","news-stories",{"title":23,"slug":24},"News","news",{"title":26,"slug":26},"2009",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":29,"canonical":30,"robots":31,"og_type":32,"twitter_card":33,"locale":11,"created_at":34,"last_modified_at":35},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Fmost-consumers-spend-more-despite-crisis\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-29T22:00:37.098964+01:00",[37],{"type":38,"data":39},"raw_html_block",{"content":40,"variant":41},"\n\u003Cp>In the WageIndicator Web Poll of last week we asked the visitors of our\r\nsites whether the crisis made them spend more, less or the same amount\r\nof money. A majority of 39% of the almost 1,900 people who filled in\r\nour poll said they have been spending more, 31% said they have been\r\nspending less and 30% said the crisis did not make a difference for\r\nthem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When we started the poll, we had a short discussion on\r\nwhat to expect and the general idea was that the financial crisis would\r\nnot have a huge effect on how wage-earners would behave. Companies,\r\ngovernments, whole industries might suffer from the global decline, but\r\nthose who earn a salary have not yet seen huge declines, although the\r\nmatter is clearly on the agenda for the summer of 2009. People are\r\nlosing their jobs, but we did not anticipate a huge change in how much\r\npeople would spend, although we did not expect so many people who\r\nactually spend more. Obvious, for many people the crisis also seems to\r\noffer opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Huge differences between countries\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr\u002F>What we did not anticipate were the huge\r\ndifferences between countries. In Argentina 49% said they have been\r\nspending more, followed by 48% in Mexico. On the contrary, outside\r\nLatin America, some countries indicated they have been cutting back\r\ntheir expenses massively: Spain by 70%, the US by 55% en India by 52%.\r\nIn both the UK and Chili more people said they had been reducing their\r\nexpenditure compared to those who have spent more. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps we can talk about a global financial crisis, but different parts of the globe behave differently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This week our web poll will be about pensions. Who do you expect will take care of the major part of your pension?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"discreet\">\u003Cem>The WageIndicator is an international, continuous web-based operation now in 45 countries. It provides free, accurate wage data through Salary Checks on national WageIndicator websites. It collects wage data through web surveys. Please note that, in contrast to our scientifically based Salary Checks, the results of our web polls are not scientifically tested.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n","light",{"text":43,"link":44},"Contact us",{"title":43,"url":45,"description":43,"rel":46,"type":47,"id":48},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]