The chart shows that only a very small number of respondents answered that their household circumstances or lifestyles have become better off or improved compared with one year ago.
While the proportion of such respondents is currently slightly over 5 percent, even during the period of high economic growth between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s, when real GDP grew by around 10 percent every year, the only period when more than 10 percent of people replied that their circumstances or lifestyles had become better off or improved was from 1959 to 1963.4 The results indicate that people do not feel the effects 4  In the time-series data of the Public Opinion Survey on the Life of the People conducted by the Cabinet Office, the share of respondents answering that their household's lifestyle "improved" exceeded 30 percent during the high economic growth period.