{"id":216819,"date":"2017-12-21T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=216819"},"modified":"2017-12-21T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T06:23:45","slug":"how-much-the-average-south-african-spends-on-christmas-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/216819\/how-much-the-average-south-african-spends-on-christmas-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"How much the average South African spends on Christmas presents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statistics South Africa has published a graph showing how much the average South African family spends on gifts for their parents, grandparents and children.<\/p>\n

The gift prices were sourced from a combination of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for November 2017, as well as the registry of recorded live births for 2016.<\/p>\n

According to the data, Dads receive the most expensive gifts with the average present costing R776.22<\/strong> – an increase of 1.2% In comparison, South African moms typically receive presents worth only R328.74<\/strong> – a significant decrease of 11.6% compared to presents last year.<\/p>\n

The only other decrease was seen in gifts for male children which typically cost R173.95<\/strong> in December 2017 – down 6.2% when compared to gift prices earlier this year.<\/p>\n

You can find the full list of expenses detailed below.<\/p>\n

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Read:\u00a0What to buy a billionaire for Christmas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statistics South Africa has published a graph showing how much the average South African family spends on gifts for their parents, grandparents and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":106911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26,3745],"class_list":["post-216819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline","tag-statistics-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217221,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216819\/revisions\/217221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}