Skip to content

Poll result: Majority of Richmond News readers kept credit card in wallet during holidays

Almost 54 per cent of readers who answered our poll question didn't rack up any holiday debt
unsplash credit card

Richmond News polled 675 Richmond News readers and asked the question: How long will it take you to clear holiday debt?

The poll ran from 1/5/2023 to 1/13/2023. Of the 675 votes, we can determine that 225 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

The summer 8.89 % local, 8.89 % total    
Spring break 4.44 % local, 5.63 % total    
End of January 8.00 % local, 7.85 % total    
Already cleared 10.67 % local, 13.48 % total    
Didn't rack up any debt 53.78 % local, 52.59 % total    
Doesn't apply 14.22 % local, 11.56 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Richmond. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.77%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.