Returning to Church Highest Priority for Brazilians After Quarantine, Says Survey

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Churches are the first place that Brazilians would like to return to after the end of the social isolation measures, due to the pandemic of the novel coronavirus.

The survey was conducted by the research institute Ideia Big Data, which interviewed 1,667 Brazilians aged 18 and over between April 21st and 22nd via a mobile app. The error margin is four percentage points plus or minus.

One in three Brazilians intends to attend church the same week religious services are restarted. Another 14 percent would return to the temples within 15 days and 22 percent would wait a month.

After churches, beauty salons and barbershops are the places that Brazilians most want to see reopen. Approximately 24 percent of respondents intend to take care of their looks the same week salons are reopened and 19 percent within 15 days. Another 26 percent will use this type of service again within no more than a month.

In the sequence of desired activities are snack bars (with 18 percent returning the same week of release and 19 percent within 15 days) and restaurants (15 percent and 18 percent, respectively).

Shopping malls come later: 14 percent of respondents plan to return to shopping malls in the reopening week and 16 percent would wait up to 15 days, while 32 percent said they would return within one month.

The last on the list are nightclubs, bars and movie theaters. Nearly two-thirds of respondents said they do not know when they will return to nightclubs, 52 percent provided the same answer regarding bars and 46 percent regarding movie theaters.

Approximately 22 percent intend to return to bars in the reopening week or within 15 days, the same aggregate rate for movie theaters. In relation to nightclubs, the sum of these two answers was 14 percent. In turn, parties and other celebrations record a 26 percent rate.