In 2024, consumers in the United States expected to spend over 1,000 U.S. dollars on holiday gifts on average. This is the first time the projected spending estimate reached that 1,000-dollar-mark. Holiday shopping The Christmas, or holiday season, is the single most critical sales period of the year for many retailers: this period includes days, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and an increasing amount of Americans also shop online during this busy time. An incredible shopping hubbub is produced during this period, with a staggering ** percent of U.S. consumers having said they intended to buy something during the Christmas season in 2024. Gift cards and vouchers Christmas is a public holiday in the United States and is celebrated on December 25th each year. It is known as a big economic stimulus for many people to purchase Christmas gifts for their beloved family and friends. After Christmas and New Year’s Eve, retail sales often peak again in January as many people redeem their received Christmas gift cards and vouchers. In fact, over **** of U.S. consumers planned to buy gift cards or gift certificates for others. It is a popular gifting option, with many Americans indicating that it can be very convenient.

Data derived from weekly public opinion polls in the Netherlands in 1971 concerning social and political issues. Samples were drawn from the Dutch population aged 18 years and older.All data from the surveys held between 1962 and 2000 are available in the DANS data collections.Background variables:Sex / age / religion / income / vote recall latest elections / party preference / level of education / union membership / professional status / left-right rating / party alignment / province / degree of urbanization / weight factor.Topical variables:n7103: Ideal size of family.n7104: What problems Dutch foreign policy should or should not deal with.n7105: Friendly unfriendly feelings towards six nationalities / Legalization of roulette / Playing roulette / Most admired living women, members of Royal Family excluded.n7106: Interest in emigration / New coins of Hfl. 2.50.n7107: Television advertising / Television license fee / Hypothetical Prime Minister elections by the public / Expectations regarding money to spend in 1971.n7108: Knowledge of, attitudes towards political parties / Time for strikes or not.n7109: Census 1971 / Housing shortage / Air and water pollution.n7110: Date of coming parliamentary elections / Voting intention at coming parliamentary elections / Financial policy of present government / Visit of Japanese emperor Hirohito / Profile of DS'70 / Left-right preference.n7111: Public money for visual artists, musicians, actors, ballet dancers, authors.n7112: Reading books / Title of last read book / Queen Juliana's visit to West-Germany and Indonesia.n7114: Working outdoors / Way of transport homework.n7115: Most admired living sportsman or sportswoman / Most admired living male or female artist.n7117: Preferred prime-minister / Preferred KVP prime-minister / Preferred PvdA prime-minister.n7121: Preferred coalition / Preferred prime-minister / Value of "floating" guilder / Prices - and incomes policy / Time for strikes or not / Alliance of the political parties KVP, ARP and CHU / Alliance of PvdA D66 and PPR.n7123: Interest in politics.n7125: Alliance of VVD and DS'70 / First tasks of new government / Accelerated date of elections / Differences in legacy duties.n7128: Confidence in new ministers / Familiarity with new ministers.n7130: Preferred big city to live / Independency for Surinam and the Dutch Antilles / Nude beaches / Objections to nude pictures, nude actors and actresses.n7133: Playing in Football Pool, state Lottery, German Lottery / Legalization of roulette / Playing roulette abroad.n7136: Overpopulation in The Netherlands / Preferred measures against overpopulation.n7138: Diminishing influence of religion on society in The Netherlands / Keeping pets.n7139: Decent female and male behaviour and manners / The queen's speech and the Government's budget / Respondent's opinion about the program of the new government.n7140: Most beautiful towns in The Netherlands / Dutch towns which are: most attractive, having the best theatre performances and concerts / Hardest working Dutch towns and those with worst parking problems.n7143: Familiarity and confidence in politicians / Visit of the Japanese emperor Hirohito / Activities of Wim Kan concerning visit of the Japanese emperor Hirohito / Respondent's opinion about the riots during the visit of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito / Income policy.n7147: Preferred aid to developing countries / Whether the Dutch government should give more or less development aid, in proportion to expenditures of other ministries / Whether the government should intervene in the wage negotiations between the unions and the employers / Preference for income - and price policy of the government / Time for strikes or not / Expectations about unemployment during the coming year.n7148: Most admired living man and women / Most urgent tasks of the government.n7150: Quality of the armed forces and expenditures on defense / Alliance of ARP and CHU, and alliance of ARP, CHU and KVP / Celebrating Christmas/ buying of a Christmas tree, going out for dinner, buying Christmas presents, attending the Christmas mid- night mass.n7151: Going on winter sports holiday and in which country.n7152: Strikes in metallurgical industry / Conditions for euthanasia / Abortion. Data derived from weekly public opinion polls in the Netherlands concerning social and political issues. Samples were drawn from the Dutch population aged 21 or 18 years and older. The weekly data are available as separate files in annual records, containing overviews of the standard background variables as well as the topical variables.The dataset 'NIPO weeksurveys 1962-2000 (Creator: R.N. Eisinga, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen' ) contains a cumulative datafile with a selection of the standard background variables: political party vote last election / political party vote intention / left-right political self-rating / union membership / sex / age / religious denomination / education / income / occupational status / province / municipality size and codes / postal code.