HANOI, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese consumers are the second-most optimistic among the surveyed Asian-Pacific markets, MasterCard has said in its latest survey on consumer confidence.
Vietnam Consumer Confidence Index has stood at a high level of 90.8 points, just after Cambodia with 93.1 points.
Asia-Pacific countries averaged consumers' confidence at 66.9 points, slightly up from the 62.7 points reported six months ago mainly due to stock market and job prospects.
From April to June this year, MasterCard asked over 9,000 consumers in about 18 Asia-Pacific countries aged between 18 and 64 to give a six-month outlook on five economic factors including the economy, employment prospects, regular income prospects, stock market and quality of life.
The index is calculated on a scale of 0 to 100, with zero as the most pessimistic, 100 as the most optimistic and between 40 and 60 as neutral.
