In the 2022 Culture Barometer, we found that, in the last year, approximately 44% of Portuguese people went out to dinner at a restaurant a few times a month. However, a large proportion of the population, 42,4%, did so only rarely. Those who do so very frequently are only around 10%. It is interesting to note that women dine out less frequently than men: 38,6% responded “a few times a month”, compared to 48,4% of men, and only 2,6% said they did so more than once a week, while this was the answer selected by 8,2% of men.
In this study, we indirectly measured the population's financial availability through the average monthly household expenditure. We can conclude that those with the highest average monthly expenditure (and therefore more financial availability) also tend to dine out more often: 10% responded every week and 14% more than once a week.
As for bars and nightclubs, as expected, they were not particularly busy activities at a time when the pandemic was still a relatively present reality.
During the period in question, around half of the Portuguese population did not go to a bar or a nightclub and 40% did so rarely. Only 9% go to these places a few times a month, and this activity is even less frequent among women. Naturally, this is also a more common activity among younger people.
The Culture Barometer is an annual study that analyzes the opinions of the Portuguese people on culture. Conducted for the first time in 2019, this year's questionnaire focused mainly on the consequences of the pandemic on society and culture. Learn more about the 2022 report here and request your full report here.
Summary Technical Sheet
The study universe consists of individuals aged 15 or over, residing in mainland Portugal and the islands. The sample, with 1.200 validated interviews, was stratified by region, sex and age group, in mainland Portugal, and by islands, and distributed in each stratum according to the distribution of the target population in each stratum. The interviews were conducted from March 22 to April 19, 2022, through an online questionnaire using the CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interview) method. The results are presented with a 95% confidence level. The margin of error for the mean on a scale of 1 to 10 is 0,14 points and the margin of error for the proportion is 3,13 percentage points.
