The majority or 74% of respondents will not celebrate Halloween in Latvia this year, while 13% of respondents plan to get involved in celebrating it, according to a survey of Internet users in Latvia conducted by the Internet research and technology company Gemius.
The survey of Latvian Internet users revealed that 13% of respondents will be involved in celebrating Halloween alone or with their families, which is six percentage points less than last year. Meanwhile, 74% of respondents, which is four percentage points more than last autumn, will not celebrate the holiday.
In turn, 13% of respondents did not yet know whether in 2020 they would get involved in the activities of All Saints’ Day on the eve.
Asked to assess how much they support or do not support the celebration of Halloween in Latvia, 65% of respondents indicated that they do not support it, including 43% do not fully support it. Meanwhile, 21% are indifferent to celebrating this holiday, while 14% support the celebration of Halloween.
The largest percentage of Halloween supporters live in Tukums – 24% and in Bauska, where 20% of respondents support celebrating the holiday.
Meanwhile, the respondents who do not support the holiday most often live in Rēzekne, Liepāja and Valmiera, where more than 75% of the respondents have indicated this choice. In Riga, 16% of respondents support Halloween activities.
This year, 4,050 Latvian Internet users participated in the survey. The survey was conducted using the Internet survey “gemiusAdHoc” with the help of pop-up Internet questionnaires, which were shown to randomly selected Internet users.
It has already been reported that the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) on its website, taking into account the current difficult epidemiological situation and the rapidly growing incidence of Covid-19 in Latvia, invites everyone to carefully consider and evaluate the possibility of refraining from celebrating Halloween outside the home.
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Halloween is celebrated on October 31. On the evening of the last day of October, children have traditionally disguised themselves as mythical and popular characters, walking around the house, stitching sweets. The tradition originated in the United States, but every year the festival is gaining more and more popularity around the world. One of the symbols of this holiday is pumpkins with carved horror faces.
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