Many Americans have no plans to celebrate Halloween in 2024: Poll
Roughly one-third of adults don't plan to do anything to celebrate Halloween on Thursday, the latest Economist/YouGov poll found.
The survey found that 31 percent of adults said they don't expect to do anything to celebrate Halloween. Nineteen percent of adults younger than 45 years old and 40 percent of older Americans don't have plans for Halloween, the poll revealed.
The most popular ways people reported celebrating Halloween were eating candy at 34 percent, watching scary movies at 28 percent, and decorating their home at 23 percent, the poll found.
The poll surveyed 1,587 U.S. adults Oct 26-29. The margin of error was about 3 percentage points.
An analysis from ConsumerAffairs recently found that New Hampshire is the most "Halloween-obsessed" state in the country based on the number of haunted houses, pumpkin patches and Spirit Halloween locations per capita, Nexstar reported.
The poll comes as the White House handed out reading material and candy to trick-or-treaters Wednesday. The event was dubbed "Hallo-READ!"
Reporting from The Hill earlier this week showed experts pointing to concerns for parents to think about during Halloween, such as kids crossing the streets safely or injuries from falling. They also warned about the false rumors about poison candy and hidden blades that began roughly 60 years ago, saying that those events are fairly infrequent.
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