This report looks to understand what the recession has meant for consumers – how they are managing their finances, whether they struggling to make ends meet and how confident they are about their prospects in the coming year. It also investigates people’s view of the economy as a whole.
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Overview
Overview
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Future Opportunities
Market in Brief
Background to the Credit Crisis
Broader Economic Climate
Then and Now – Parallels with 1991-95
Market
Market
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Issues in the Market
Consumer
Consumer
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Consumer Sentiment
Consumers’ Financial Confidence and Future Prospects
Impact of the Recession on Consumers
Are Consumers Thriving, or Feeling the Pinch?
Managing Money in a Slowdown
Consumers’ Changing Financial Priorities
Consumers and the Macroeconomic Climate
Consumers and their Household Finances
Household Discretionary Spend
Data
Data
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Appendix – Consumers’ Financial Confidence and Future Prospects
Appendix – Impact of the Recession on Consumers
Appendix – Are Consumers Thriving, or Feeling the Pinch?
Appendix – Managing Money in a Slowdown
Appendix – Consumers’ Changing Financial Priorities
Appendix – Consumers and the Macroeconomic Climate
Appendix – Consumers and their Household Finances
27th January 2011
“As personal insolvencies start to fall back, debt management firms will need to work harder in order to attract clients, perhaps by taking a more preventative approach.” 
27th January 2011
“People are already wary of what’s to come. Surprise announcements of falling GDP and banner headlines resurrecting concerns of a double-dip recession won’t help confidence in what’s already set to be a tough year.”
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The recession has followed a dramatically different pattern to that seen in the early '90s. Because of low interest rates, almost a fifth of people say they're actually better-off as a result of the slowdown.
