Questions - Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays - December 7-8, 2011
81% Celebrate Christmas As A Religious Holiday
Most Americans Don’t Mind Being Wished “Happy Holidays”
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National Survey of
1,000 Adults
Conducted December
7-8, 2011
By Rasmussen Reports
1* Do you celebrate
Christmas in your family?
2* Do you celebrate
some other holiday such as Hanukkah? (Answered Only By Those Who Don't
Celebrate Christmas – 115 Adults)
3* Suppose you run
into a casual acquaintance and they wish you a Merry Christmas? Does that
offend you? (Answered Only By Those Who Don't Celebrate Christmas – 115 Adults)
4* If you ran into a casual acquaintance and
you knew they celebrated Christmas, would you be more likely to wish them Merry
Christmas or Happy Holidays? (Answered Only By Those Who Don't Celebrate
Christmas – 115 Adults)
5* Do you celebrate Christmas primarily as a religious
holiday or as a secular holiday? (Answered Only By Those Who Celebrate
Christmas)
6* Suppose you run
into a casual acquaintance and they wish you Happy Holidays? Does that offend
you? (Answered Only By Those Who Celebrate Christmas – 885 Adults)
7* If you ran into a casual acquaintance and
you knew they celebrated some holiday other than Christmas, would you be more
likely to wish them Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? (Answered Only By Those
Who Celebrate Christmas – 885 Adults)
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence