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Christmas spending online

Dec 3, 2012

Q. How much of your Christmas gift shopping do you expect you will be doing online?

All or most of it	4%
A bit more than half	9%
About half	12%
A bit less than half	13%
Not much	32%
None of it	20%
Won’t be buying Christmas gifts	5%
Don’t know	5%

25% say they will be doing at least half their Christmas gift shopping online and 70% will be doing at least some online.

35% of those aged under 45 say they will be doing at least half their shopping online compared to 16% of those aged 45+.

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Labor

45+/0

Coalition

55+/-0

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