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FACTBOX: Poll of consumer confidence in 22 countries

Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:10pm EST

(Reuters) - The financial crisis is shattering global confidence, said an Ipsos survey of 22,000 people from 22 countries published on Tuesday.

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Here is the percentage of consumers who believe their country's economic situation is good:

November 2008 April 2007

TOTAL 31 percent 55 percent

ARGENTINA 19 percent 50 percent

AUSTRALIA 40 percent 78 percent

BRAZIL 61 percent 42 percent

BRITAIN 10 percent 55 percent

CANADA 48 percent 80 percent

CHINA 46 percent 90 percent

CZECH REPUBLIC 49 percent 51 percent

FRANCE 13 percent 27 percent

GERMANY 30 percent 58 percent

INDIA 65 percent 88 percent

ITALY 9 percent 28 percent

MEXICO 20 percent 42 percent

THE NETHERLANDS 52 percent 72 percent

POLAND 51 percent 50 percent

RUSSIA 52 percent 65 percent

SOUTH KOREA 5 percent 16 percent

SPAIN 15 percent 59 percent

SWEDEN 53 percent 64 percent

TURKEY 19 percent 30 percent

UNITED STATES 11 percent 47 percent

BELGIUM 22 percent 53 percent ***

JAPAN 3 percent 27 percent ***

*** Question not asked in Belgium and Japan in April 2007. It was asked for the first time in October 2007.

The survey can be seen at www.ipsos-na.com/news.

Respondents in the online poll are managed, recruited and screened, the survey said. The results are then balanced by age, gender, city population and education levels. The margin for error is +/- 3.1 percentage points.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Howard Goller)



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