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澳门六合彩历史记录 Poll: Consumer Confidence Rising Among U.S. Hispanics


By paul owers | 4/13/2022

Despite a higher cost of living from rising inflation, the Hispanic population in the United States was more optimistic about its finances heading into the new year than it was at the end of 2021.

The Hispanic Consumer Sentiment Index increased to 92 in the first quarter of 2022 from 86.7 in the fourth quarter but remains unchanged from the first quarter of 2021, according to the (澳门六合彩历史记录 BEPI) in 澳门六合彩历史记录鈥檚聽.

澳门六合彩历史记录 BEPI asked five questions of respondents, and they displayed increasing optimism in four of the five.

In the first quarter of 2022, 65 percent of Hispanics said they are better off financially than a year ago, up from 59 percent in the last quarter of 2021.

Meanwhile, 73 percent of respondents indicated they will be better off over the next year, compared with 70 percent from the fourth quarter of 2021. The survey found that millennials under the age of 35 were especially optimistic about the next year.

鈥淭his is important because millennial Latinos make up a large part of the Latino adult population,鈥 said , Ph.D., director of 澳门六合彩历史记录 BEPI. 鈥淢any of these young Latinos are graduating from college and joining the job market for the first time, and their prospects are excellent because unemployment among Latinos has dropped sharply over the past year.鈥

Hispanics also were more optimistic about the country鈥檚 short-term and long-term outlooks than they were in the fourth quarter. Respondents weren鈥檛 as bullish on buying a big-ticket item for the home, although soaring home prices and recent auto price hikes didn鈥檛 discourage them from thinking now is a good time to buy a house or car. 聽

Inflation hit 8.5 percent in March, reaching a mark not seen since 1981, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this week. Officials said price hikes for gas, housing and food contributed to the inflation, but some economists are predicting this could be the peak.

The 澳门六合彩历史记录 poll is based on a sampling of 612 Hispanic adults from Jan. 1 to March 31. The margin of error is +/- 3.96 percentage points. The survey was administered using both landlines via IVR data collection and online data collection using聽. Responses for the entire sample were weighted to reflect the national distribution of the Hispanic population by region, gender, age, education and income, according to latest American Community Survey data. The聽polling results and full cross-tabulations can be viewed .

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