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The Statista Global Consumer Survey offers a global perspective on consumption and media usage, covering the offline and online world of the consumer. It is designed to help marketers, planners and product managers understand consumer behavior and consumer interactions with brands.
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With the Global Consumer Survey, Statista offers an intuitive expert tool to investigate and gain insight to consumer behavior, drawn from an exclusive, global survey.
more than 120,000 consumers
28 countries
over 50 industries
over 1,400 brands
Industries and Topics
Countries
International Brands
Customized Target Groups
Do-it-yourself Analyses
Content Specials
More than 50 industries and topics
The Global Consumer Survey covers more than 50 industries and topics from the online and offline world.
Marketing & Social Media
- Customer Journey
- Social Media & Word of Mouth
- Websites & Apps
Digital Media
- Attitudes
- Digital Music
- Video on Demand
- ePublishing
- Video Games
Health
- Health Care & Health Insurance
- Pharmacy & Medication
- eHealth
eServices
- Ticket Bookings
- Food Delivery
- Online Dating
eCommerce & Retail
- Shopping Behavior
- Online Shopping
- Food & Nutrition
- Relevance of Brand, Price & Luxury
Mobility
- Car Ownership & Purchase
- Mobility Services
- Smart Car Features
Smart Home
- Ownership & Intention
- Accommodation
Characteristics & Demographics
- Demographics
- Attitudes & Values
- Consumption
- Typologies
- Etc.
Internet & Devices
- Internet Usage & Attitudes
- Mobile Internet Usage
Finance
- Personal Finance
- Banking & Financial Services
- Online & Mobile Payment
Travel
- Private & Business Travel
- eTravel
Content Specials
In addition to the main study, exclusive additional survey
data on interesting subtopics for custom analyses of industries
and topics is offered. The topic-specific samples provide both
a basic look and deep insights into specified markets.
The Content Specials are continually extended and cover topics including:
Eating & Drinking
Survey results delving into people’s eating and drinking habits, from the brands they use to the restaurants they visit. Including areas such as fast food, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, along with general attitudes and behavior.
Media, Sports & Lifestyle
Survey results exploring attitudes, behaviors and brand usage within media, sports and lifestyle sectors. Including media consumption, hobbies and caring for pets.
Luxury
Survey of luxury shoppers: purchase behavior, brand awareness, high-end second hand clothes store, etc.
Toys and Games
Survey of parents about toys and games: brands, purchase criteria, attitudes, etc.
Customized target groups
Users can use a set of dimensions including demographics, living situation, internet & media usage, attitudes & values, and typologies to create custom target groups for analyses.
Demographics
- Age
- Gender
- Ethnicity¹
- Education
- Household income
- Profession
Living situation
- Region²
- Size of community
- Type of community
- Household size
- Marital status
- Children in household
Internet & Media
- Frequency of private internet usage
- Devices used for internet access
- Advertising touchpoints
- Social media activities
- Media consumption
- Brand awareness by categories
Life Values
- Important life aspects
- Typology
Segmentation/Typologies
- Adopter types²
- Purchase decision makers²
- Brand-aware consumers
- Customer satisfaction typology
Do-it-yourself Analyses
The Global Consumer Survey is accessible via an interactive online evaluation tool: users can carry out their own evaluation of the Global Consumer Survey data, select their own criteria to create cross tables and customize target groups.
Features
- DIY online analyses
- Cross-tabulation
- Filtering and selection of specific target audiences
- Export to CSV

28 countries covering 84% of the global GDP
The Global Consumer Survey was conducted in 28 countries. The basis version of the survey covers 73 dimensions and a minimum of 1,000 interviews per country. The extended version adds another 85 items to the survey and covers at least 10,000 interviews per country. The following 28 countries were covered:
- Canada ¹
- U.S. ¹
- Mexico
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Colombia
North America
Latin America
- Austria ¹
- Finland
- France ¹
- Germany ¹
- Italy ¹
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Russia
- Spain ¹
- Sweden
- Switzerland ¹
- Turkey
- UK ¹
Europe
- Australia
- China ¹
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- South Korea
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- South Africa
Asia & Australia
Africa
What is the Global Consumer Survey?
Release calendar
History
Future Updates
Last 30 days
European Football Benchmark: Serie A (Italy)
The first football survey that compares…
European Football Benchmark: Ligue 1 (France)
The first football survey that compares…
Content Special: GAFAMTAB
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba,…
Content Special: Media, Sport & Lifestyle (USA)
Survey results exploring attitudes, behaviors and…
Content Special: Eating & Drinking (USA)
Survey results delving into peoples eating…
European Football Benchmark: Primera División, La Liga (Spain)
The first football survey that compares…
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December
No scheduled updates
January
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February
No scheduled updates
Methodology
The Global Consumer Survey was conducted as an interactive online survey. The target population are internet users between 18 and 64 years of age. Fieldwork took place between November 2017 and January 2018. Respondents in each country were sampled according to representative quotas for age, gender and region¹.
Cint is the exclusive sample provider for the Global Consumer Survey. Essential to the Cint platform are the quality standards and controls built into its research-quality-focused processes. All of Cint’s systems and procedures comply with the requirements set forth in Cint’s certification to ISO 20252, which defines the requirements in a Quality Management System for organizations conducting market, opinion and social research².
In addition to the survey data, the Global Consumer Survey contains the most recent profiling data available for each respondent. Users can choose from more than 100 additional characteristics to build and analyze their custom target groups.
Work Life & Decision Making, e.g. field of expertise, professional position
Education, e.g. major at university
Household Situation, e.g. pet ownership, planned home improvements
Politics, e.g. political party, frequency of voting
Hobbies & Interest, e.g. sports activities
Retail & Purchase Behavior, e.g. purchase of children’s clothing
Food & Nutrition, e.g. frequency of fast food consumption
Consumer Electronics, e.g. ownership of electronic products
Smartphone, e.g. used smartphone features
Media Usage, e.g. preferred music genres
Video Gaming, e.g. time spent playing video games, types of video games
Vehicles, e.g. ownership of motorcycles
Finances & Insurances, e.g. insurance coverage, participation in stock trading
Health, e.g. usage of spectacles and hearing aids
Smoking, e.g. cigarette brands
Travel, e.g. preferred types of vacations, airlines flown with
Statista applied a consistent quality management to every step of the research process:
Panel quality
- Quality management mechanisms by Cint, including quarantine times for respondents, continuous quality checks across different surveys, exclusion after repetitive bad survey behavior, etc.
Survey quality
- Sample quotas on age, gender, and region¹
- Mobile-optimized questionnaires (e.g. no grid-questions, limited number of items, etc.) with item randomization
Statista quality checks
- Measures to ensure data quality included checks for speeders, straight liners and non-response, logic and repetition tests, open questions for bot-identification, etc.
- Our work complies with the guidelines set by BVM/ADM (Germany) and ESOMAR
General
Who can access the Global Consumer Survey?
The Global Consumer Survey can be activated for all Statista clients who have an Enterprise Account. Please log in to the platform as usual and then choose the “login” option for the Global Consumer Survey. You will be forwarded directly to the data. Not an Enterprise client yet? Please contact our Customer Service for personal advice.
Which topics are included in the Global Consumer Survey?
The Global Consumer Survey contains exclusive data on more than 50 industries and hot topics. Please find a detailed overview of all content here.
Can the data be downloaded?
You can easily download all your individual analyses as CSV files and start processing them right away. You will find the download button on the upper right corner of the table.
Will the Global Consumer Survey cover more countries in the future?
The Global Consumer Survey covers currently 28 countries. We will expand the content available for each country and the range of country as it is described in our release calendar.
Please find information on the extension plans towards further countries here.
Data & methodology
Which sources is the Global Consumer Survey based on?
The data of the Global Consumer Survey come from a worldwide online survey, which was exclusively carried out by Statista. In addition, there is a set of profiling questions that were answered by the respondents in previous surveys conducted by the panel provider, their number depends on the individual country.
Who was interviewed in the Global Consumer Survey?
The Global Consumer Survey contains data on more than 120,000 respondents worldwide. Conditions for participation were internet access and a registration for online survey participation. Quotas were applied on demographic characteristics in order to make sure that the samples were representative of the online population in the surveyed countries.
When were the data gathered?
The data were gathered betwen November 2017 and June 2018. Please find the exact survey periods for the individual countries here.
Technical questions & customer support
Can the data for different countries be directly compared?
It is always guaranteed that the data for individual countries are methodologically comparable. For direct comparisons of individual indicators in international context, please use the download function in the table you have generated. For an even quicker and easier use, we are going to directly combine the data on different countries in the future.
Who can I address if I have further questions on the content of the Global Consumer Survey?
For all support requests that refer to the provided data, please contact our Customer Service. Your inquiry will be directly forwarded to the responsible analysts and experts on our team, who will be able to provide you with comprehensive information concerning your request.
Who can I address if I have technical problems with the Global Consumer Survey?
If you have problems logging in to the Global Consumer Survey, please make sure that you are using your Enterprise Account. Only then will you have limitless access to all our exclusive data. For all other technical support requests, please contact our Customer Service. Your inquiry will be directly forwarded to the responsible IT experts, who will solve any technical issues as quickly as possible.
Team
The Global Consumer Survey was developed by Statista’s Consumer and Business Insights Team of experienced market and social researchers. We follow scientific standards pertaining to the collection, analysis, and protection of data as well as the processing of personal information. All studies undergo strict quality control procedures before, during, and after the fieldwork phase.

Nicolas Loose

Ann-Kathrin Kohl

Léonie Brandt

Johanna Regenthal

Alexander Kunst

Jack Spearman
Head of Market Research, Strategic Market Insights
Nicolas Loose is in charge of the exclusive Statista surveys and the Consumer Market Outlook. He studied Communications and Strategic Planning at Berlin University of the Arts and Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After his studies he worked as a market researcher for customers in the FMCG and automotive industries and as Head of Market Research for AUTO BILD publishing group with Axel Springer publishing house.
Market Researcher
Ann-Kathrin Kohl studied Sociology at the University of Potsdam.
Prior to joining Statista, she was a project manager for quantitative market and opinion research at the German research institute INFO GmbH Markt- und Meinungsforschung.
Market Researcher
Léonie Brandt graduated in Communication Science at the University of Münster. In her studies she specialized in empirical research methods and statistical analyses.
Prior to joining Statista she worked in journalism and gained experience at several PR and market research agencies.
Market Researcher
Johanna Regenthal graduated in Business Psychology from the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She specialized in International Management and Personnel Psychology. As CBI's newest team member she has become a full part of Statista, after she had already supported the team for a year as a student assistant gaining experience in study design, set-up and analysis.
Senior Researcher
Alexander Kunst studied Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, specializing in empirical methods and analytical philosophy.
Having worked on pharma and chemicals topics in Statista’s editorial team for several years, he has joined CBI and is now responsible for publishing CBI surveys as statistics on the Statista platforms.
Market Researcher
Jack Spearman studied Sociology at Kingston University in London, UK. After graduating, he went on to work at TNS and Ipsos in various project management and market research roles, where he developed his skills for over 7 years.
He moved to Hamburg in 2016 and prior to joining Statista he worked as a Patient Insight Manager at Clariness, where he helped lead the development of the company’s online survey offer.
Statista Research & Analysis
Are you looking for in-depth data or specific analyses that go beyond what the Statista platform or the Global Consumer Survey offer?
Our services include:
- Online surveys, focus groups, and expert interviews
- Data modeling for market sizing and forecasting
- Desk research and company profiles
Do you have any further questions?
We look forward to your inquiry
The Global Consumer Survey is part of the Statista Enterprise Account. Upon request we can tell you whether the Global Consumer Survey has been unlocked for your account.



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