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The statistic depicts the results of a survey about the average expected Christmas spending of U.S. consumers as compared to the respective previous year from 2007 to 2011. The percentage of people intendindg to spend less on Christmas goods than in the respective previous year has been increasing since 2007, while the share of people with a certain budget - thus intending to spend about the same amount of money as the previous year again - has been relatively stable with values around 54 to 67 percent. For example, 54 percent of the respondents expect to spend about the same amount in 2011 as they did in 2010.