France's consumer confidence index about financial and economic situation grew by 2 points in December 2014 from a month earlier, showing less pessimism about their outlook, the national statistics bureau Insee said Tuesday.
Household appreciation for their past financial balance gained 6 points, reaching the highest level since 2013 and 2 points for the future compared to November data.
"Despite this more favourable perception of their financial situation, slightly fewer households considered it as a suitable time to make major purchases," Insee said.
Household opinions showed more anticipation of better standard of living and more willingness to save as consumers saving capacity index in the next 12 months grew by 9 points.
As to unemployment rate, more people predicted for an increase of unemployment in the future with the index rising by 3 points, compared with November, to 68 points.
In France's mainland, with 2.841 million French out of work, 9.9 percent of the active population were unemployed in the third quarter of 2014, up by 0.2 percent.
Taking into account the overseas department, jobless rate stood at 10.4 percent, up from 10.1 percent reported in the second quarter, according to Insee figures.
On Monday, French President Francois Hollande promised to "take any risk" to accelerate growth by more than 1 percent this year and in 2016 to start reversing unemployment trend.
"If we have more growth, we will have less unemployment," he added.
The French government estimates the country's economy will grow at 1 percent in 2015 and 1.7 percent in 2016./.