TOKYO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Japan's overall household spending fell 4.6 percent in December from a year earlier in price-adjusted real terms, government data showed on Friday, a bigger fall than a median market forecast for a 3.8 percent decrease.
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(Changes in percent, economists' median forecast in parentheses):
DECEMBER NOVEMBER Overall household spending
Real (year-on-year) -4.6 (-3.8) -0.5 pct
Real (month-on-month) -2.5 +3.1 pct ------------------------------------------------------------ Wage earner households (year-on-year)
Real spending -4.1 +1.2 pct
Real average income +1.6 -0.3 pct ------------------------------------------------------------ To view the full tables, go to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications at
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/kakei/index.htm (Reporting by Hideyuki Sano)