More than 50% of Chileans want to change consumption habits and believe inflation will worsen in 2022

As a complex year, but not a bad one, 49% of those consulted in the third edition of the “Ipsos Keys” report rated 2021, which seeks to provide a current look at national and citizen events. Meanwhile, 21 percent of the 801 survey participants said the outgoing year was “stable.” But 20% admitted that 2021 was bad and only 1 in 10 respondents valued it as “good” or “excellent”. Faced with the question: “Do you think that the following aspects related to the economy in Chile will improve or worsen?”, 51% predicted that inflation will worsen and only 14% believe that it will improve. On foreign investment, 35% think it will be worse than the previous year, but 43% think it will stay the same. In relation to unemployment and the country’s economy, 30% and 36% respectively predicted that they will have a negative return. They also asked about the consumption patterns they expect to have next year compared to 2021: 52% mentioned agreeing to “change my priorities in terms of what I consume”. 46% said “we’re going to have to spend more” and 43% said “in my home we’re going to have less money available.” When asked about what will be the expenses where people will increase their investment the most, 28% mentioned education, 25% food and food, and 23% basic services. In what was less interest in increasing their expenses is in alcoholics (7%) and in gambling (6%). In fact, 56% say they should buy less alcohol and 66% fewer games. Among the most positive milestones of 2021 for the country, the most popular among those consulted was the delivery of the IFE, with 88% approval. This was followed by the vaccination process against the coronavirus (83%) and in third place was the announcement of the Universal Guaranteed Pension (75%). Also highlighted in the list of positive milestones were the beginning of the work of the Constitutional Convention (55%), the presentation of the Constitutional Accusation against President Piñera (48%) and the rejection of the Constitutional Accusation against him (32%). Regarding the most important events of the year, 29% said that the main one was the vaccination process against covid, 24% highlighted the delivery of the IFE and 13% said that the presidential elections in the first and second round (13%). Then space was given to the withdrawals of pension funds (10%), the beginning of the work of the Constitutional Convention (10%) and the approval of equal marriage (5%). Covid in ChileIn December, 39% of respondents consider the spread of covid-19 in the country to be of high severity and 35% consider it of low severity for people, with men (40%) being the ones who have the least perception of severity before the virus. In relation to the handling of the pandemic, the Government reached its best evaluation in 2021 with 47% approval, with an increase of 19% compared to November. Only 28% evaluated their management negatively. The Ómicron variant was also an item: 34% believe it will be serious for the country and 30% estimate that it will be very serious. Only 3% think it will be nothing serious. Despite the perception of severity of the strain, 36% feel protected against it and 19% very protected. Only 3% say they are not protected at all. Finally, questioned about indicators of well-being and cohesion in the country, the most criticized by the sample was: trust in institutions (76% of negative evaluation), mood of people (71%), general well-being of people (69%), governance (68%) and

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