Vietnam: items purchased in bulk after coronavirus outbreak 2020

According to a survey by Rakuten Insight on panic buying after the coronavirus outbreak, 90.53 percent of Vietnamese respondents stated that they stocked up on dry food items such as rice, noodles, pasta and flour. In the same survey, 61.57 percent of respondents indicated that they had not engaged in panic buying because of the coronavirus pandemic, while 38.43 percent of respondents did.

Leading goods purchased for stockpiling due to coronavirus (COVID-19) among respondents in Vietnam in 2020

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Dry food items (rice, noodles, pasta, flour...)	90.53%
Personal hygiene products (soap, shampoo, hand soap...)	61.6%
Medical supplies (disinfectant, sanitisers, surgical masks, household medication...)	59.34%
Fresh meat and vegetables	55.6%
Hygiene paper products (toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, wet wipes...)	53.52%
Canned and preserved goods (canned vegetables, canned soup, pickled vegetables, pasta sauce...)	50.91%
Frozen food items (frozen vegetables, frozen pizza, frozen meat...)	48.48%
Others	1.91%

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Release date

May 2020

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Region

Vietnam

Survey time period

April 9 to 30, 2020

Number of respondents

1,151 respondents

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

among female and male respondents that engaged in panic buying

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Original question: What items did you stock up on?

Other surveyed countries included China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.

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