Only 1% of the Russians used New Year holidays for spending time in health resorts of Russia or for travelling abroad. Such data was announced by the Russian Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) after conducting a survey on January 8-9 in 46 regions of the Russian Federation.
The most popular variant of answer of the participants of the survey was “the visits to the friends” (51%). The 2nd place took the answer “walking in the open air” (21%).
Only 13% of the respondents spent their time with children visiting different shows, 12% went skating, skiing or sledging, 10% visited restaurants, clubs or discos, 9% went to theatres, movies and concert halls, 8% went to the country. It’s interesting to note, that 14% of the respondents had to work during the holidays.
According to another survey, which was conducted on January 15-16 in 43 regions of the Russian Federation, 46% of the participants of the survey disapproved such long New Year holidays.
19% of the people said that holidays “urged to hard drinking”, 14% complained about expenses and 11% didn’t know what to do during the holidays. 6% of the respondents said that they lost some salary as the holidays upset the routine.
However, 41% of the participants of the survey enjoyed the long holidays. According to answers of these respondents, they had extra days off (38%) and had opportunity to spend time with family, children and relatives (17%). source: atorus.ru
