Skilled workers are more likely to attend midnight mass than any other socio-economic groups while the upper-middle classes are more likely to spend New Year’s Eve in a restaurant or hotel, according to MaltaToday’s Christmas survey in which respondents were asked how they plan to spend Christmas eve and New Year’s eve.
While 29% of skilled workers plan to attend midnight mass, only 15.2% of unskilled workers and unemployed plan to do likewise. Among the upper-middle classes, 17% plan to participate in mass.
This could be an indication that skilled workers are more keen on religious devotion than other groups. By contrast, unskilled workers and the unemployed tend to be the least keen on attending midnight mass.
Not surprisingly, while 22.9% of ABs and 23% of the self-employed would spend New Year’s Eve in a restaurant or hotel, only 9% of DEs, the least earning of socio-economic groups, plan to do likewise.
All social groups tend to prefer spending Christmas eve at home or with their relatives. Pensioners are the most likely to spend Christmas eve at the home of their relatives.
ABs are more likely to spend Christmas eve at home or with relatives than C1s, an indication that the higher social class opts for big family gatherings on Christmas eve and for less family-oriented entertainment on New Year’s eve.
While 5.7% of ABs would spend Christmas eve at a restaurant, 12.2% of C1s would do so. Yet the situation is reversed on New Year’s eve when more ABs chose to celebrate the arrival of the new year in a restaurant or hotel.
ABs and C1s are also more likely to celebrate the new year in a party or bar. Overall more people will be celebrating Christmas eve and New Year’s eve in a restaurant than last year.