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# Digico survey finds stronger support for gift choice among experienced aid recipients

A DIGITALIO survey puts selectable digital gifts behind bank transfers overall, but ahead among prior users. The findings measure stated preferences.

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 Preference for the most satisfying future municipal-aid format. Prior users are an overlapping subgroup of the 801 respondents. Photo: Gift Card News; source: DIGITALIO / Digico survey 

Selectable digital gifts ranked second behind bank transfers as the preferred way to receive future municipal aid in research released by [DIGITALIO](https://giftcard.news/company/digitalio/)’s Digico service on October 7\. Among respondents who had used that gift format, it ranked first. [\[S01\]](#article-source-1)[\[S03\]](#article-source-3)

Across 801 respondents, 45.3% selected bank transfer as the format that would provide greatest satisfaction, compared with 37.5% for digital gifts offering redemption choices. Within the overlapping subgroup of 209 prior users, the figures were 38.8% and 51.7%, respectively. [\[S01\]](#article-source-1)

The online questionnaire ran August 12-14 among Japanese residents aged 20-69 who had received, applied for or qualified for municipal economic support within three years. Separately, 48.1% described restricted merchant acceptance as an inconvenience of municipal currencies. [\[S01\]](#article-source-1)

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* [\[S01\] Original municipal-benefit survey results and methodology, October 7](https://digitalio.jp/news/202610071000-01/?utm%5Fsource=giftcard.news&utm%5Fcampaign=giftcard.news) — DIGITALIO / Digico
* [\[S02\] Digico digital-gift redemption and distribution platform](https://digitalio.jp/service/digico?utm%5Fsource=giftcard.news&utm%5Fcampaign=giftcard.news) — DIGITALIO
* [\[S03\] Issuer-authored matching survey release and original publication date](https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000201.000087754.html?utm%5Fsource=giftcard.news&utm%5Fcampaign=giftcard.news) — DIGITALIO via PR TIMES

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