Developed and powered by companies JCB and Nowcast, Japan's only international payment brand and the Japanese forerunner in big data analytics, JCB Consumption NOW is the cutting-edge index for comprehending the "now" in consumption.

In addition to the consumption index by industry available previously, now indexes by consumer attributes such as age, gender, and residential area are also available. And statistical accuracy has also been improved by increasing the sample size from about 100,000 to about 1 million consumers.
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The two most significant features of JCB Consumption NOW are the breadth and speed of analysis. JCB Consumption NOW enables users to obtain information by a number of types of sales and industry, including ecommerce and other types of consumption which had not been accurately reported in statistics before, and makes multifaceted analysis of this information possible.
The other major consumption statistics are based on surveys, which take a long time to research and report, but JCB Consumption NOW uses actual payment data for superior responsiveness.

JCB Consumption NOW is highly useful in the following professions:
・Retail marketing specialists and strategic planners who have had to struggle to accurately identify consumption trends in the past
・Security analysts who specialize in the retail industry and those in charge of investment decisions in the financial sector
・Policy analysts in national and regional government organizations Professionals from various industries have expressed their appreciation of JCB Consumption NOW.

JCB Consumption NOW indexes can be used as one source of information for retail and service industry sales analysis and for government policy evaluation. Data breakdown by consumer attribute makes it possible to focus on specific age, gender, and residential area segments, something that was very difficult before. *Services available vary by member status. Please contact us for more information

JCB Consumption NOW uses anonymized JCB Group cardmember payment information to calculate consumption statistics. The statistics are adjusted to eliminate any attribute bias and changes in the balance between credit and cash spending.
*The JCB Group includes JCB and franchisee companies established in alliance with partners such as banks, security companies, and insurance companies. Click here for more information about anonymization.

Statistics are published twice a month.
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Subscribers can download data from JCB Consumption NOW in CSV format and may also use the service's graph maker. Subscribers may also sign up to receive update notifications and seminar information by email from JCB Consumption NOW.
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Subscribers may use and quote JCB Consumption NOW's information in reports and other documents. Using six or more consecutive sets of data (except when creating a graph or otherwise processing the data) is strictly prohibited. For more information, please refer to Chapter Three: Intellectual Property Rights in our Terms and Services here.
If you are quoting from JCB Consumption NOW, you must cite Nowcast/JCB as the source, and also contact the JCB Consumption NOW's operation office （support@jcbconsumptionnow.com). Our business is to distribute real-time statistics widely, and we know it is very important for our members to use that information in many analytical documents. Please make use of our statistics.

Data from JCB Consumption NOW can be downloaded from the member page. Subscribers may process and analyze the downloaded data at their liberty. If you are providing processed or analyzed data to third parties, please do not show six or more consecutive sets of the data that may be perceived as the original.
In addition, please cite Nowcast/JCB as your source and contact the JCB Consumption NOW operation office (support@jcbconsumptionnow.com).