More than 87 percent of workers said they are planning to celebrate Mother’s Day to express their gratitude to their moms, a survey showed on Monday.
Online recruiting agency yes123, which conducted the poll, said that 87.4 percent of respondents said they would spend Mother’s Day with their moms on Sunday, slightly lower than 88.2 percent recorded in a similar survey last year.
The job agency said that despite the slightly lower figure this year, the percentage was still higher than 80 percent, a threshold it has always exceeded since the annual survey was launched in 2014.
The figure is about 10 percentage points higher than the ratio of polled workers who said they would celebrate Father’s Day.
Among respondents who said they would celebrate Mother’s Day, 79.2 percent plan to mark the occasion with a family meal, 69.3 percent would give their mothers gifts and 32.7 percent intend to buy a cake.
The survey showed that respondents plan to spend an average of NT$3,889 for the occasion, up 2.4 percent from the average budget in last year’s survey.
Of the respondents planning to give their moms a present, 44.2 percent said they would give cash, 38.5 percent said they would give cosmetics and 26 percent said they would send Mother’s Day cards, the survey showed.
Another 22.1 percent said they would give their mothers cooking utensils and 20.8 percent said they would give home appliances.
According to the survey, 54.5 percent of respondents said they provide financial support to their mothers or mothers-in-law to help them with living costs, with nearly three in four providing funds on a regular basis.
These respondents provide an average of NT$8,306 a month, about 21 percent of their average wage, the poll showed.
The survey was conducted from April 19 to Thursday last week and collected 1,155 valid questionnaires.
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