December 2017 data, revealed that 9,5% of the Greek population lives in very bad (poor) financial conditions. This presents a small increase of 1,5% compared to November 2017 (8%) and remains the same compared to one year before (data from December 2016 indicated that 10% of the Greek population were living in poor financial conditions).
Almost 5 out of 10 respondents consider themselves as living in bad conditions. This is the same, compared to the previous month (data from November 2017 – 46%) while it shows a slight decrease of 1,5% compared to one year before (December 2016 – 47,5%).
Furthermore, 37,5% of the Greeks, assess their financial conditions as not good. Compared to one year before, this is the same (data from December 2016 indicate that 37% of the Greek population live above average) while there is a slight decrease of 2,5 percentage points compared to one month before (November 2017 – 40%).
Finally, 6,5% assesses its economic situation as “good”. This is also the same compared to the previous month (data from November 2017 – 6,5%) while there is a slight increase of 1% compared to one year before (data from December 2016 showed that 5,5% said that they were living in good economic conditions).
*more on the scales that economic self-assessment is being measured you could find here: corr_Explanation on how we meaure self-assessment on financial sit
