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Daedalus study: Romanians would place their money in real estate rather than in lei deposits
Almost 13.8% of the Romanians will deposit in a private pension fund in 2009, 10.5% aims at deposits in lei at the bank and 10.9% consider real estate, according to a study made by the company for market research Daedalus Millward Brown.
A third of the questioned ones considered that they lived worse in 2008 versus 2007, while the rest considered they lived better. More than half of these (55.1%) considered the indicator will have a negative trend in 2009, percentage increasing against the number of pessimists questioned in 2007. Almost 63% of the Romanians say that the main source of income was salary in the main activity in 208, percentage which dropped last year against 2007.
According to the study, over 35% of the questioned ones say that income is only for the bare necessities in 2009, percentage which will rise against the number of those who answered in the same period of 2008, while the number of those who consider that income is enough for a decent living, without acquisitions is dropping, at the level of 30.8% versus 35.5% in 2008.
In January 2009, 64.4% of the Romanians owned a house or a flat, against 65.9% in the first month of 2008, approximately 46% had a car ( versus 50.6% in January 2008) and 28.2% a holiday house ( against 32% in 2008). The number of private insurances increased with almost one third of the urban population. “ Following the structure of types of insurance, life insurance and propriety insurance, CASCO are the commonest , more than in 2008. On the one hand, 8.7% of the Romanians in the urban environment have an insurance for property in 2009 against 6.3% in 2008. On the other hand, if in 2008 only 5.6% of the urban population had a life insurance , in 2009 the percentage of those with such an insurance went up to 11% “ the study says.
The study was made between 21 January – 27 January 2009, 22 January – 4 February 2008, 18 January – 22 January 2007 on a sample of approximately 1,000 people in the urban environment, with ages between 18 – 65 in each of the periods with an error margin of 3%.