Q. How often, if ever, do you or someone in your household engage in spring cleaning?
78% Every year
8% Every other year
5% Every few years
3% Less often than every few years
7% I never spring clean
Q. For which of the following reasons do you not spring clean?
(asked among those who never spring clean)
40% My home doesn’t look dirty
39% I’d rather spend my time doing other things
13% I don’t have enough time
7% I don’t know how to spring clean
Q. Which of the following spaces is your biggest priority when you spring clean? (asked among those who spring clean)
25% Bedrooms
23% Closets
22% Kitchen
18% Family room
9% Bathrooms
Q. Which of the following are the top three dirtiest items in your home right now?
65% Windows
64% Floors
48% Toilets
41% Shelves
32% Kitchen Appliances
28% Sinks
19% Bed linens
Q. How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statement – on a typical day, my home is not as clean as I would like it to be.
78% Agree
22% Disagree
The 2020 ACI National Cleaning Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research (www.wakefieldresearch.com) among 1,000 nationally representative U.S. adults, ages 18+, between February 10 and February 18, 2020, using an email invitation and an online survey. For the interviews conducted in this particular study, the chances are 95 in 100 that a survey result does not vary, plus or minus, by more than 3.1 percentage points for the sample.
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