Nearly 80 per cent of Bulgarians are planning to spend New Year's at home, according to a nationally representative poll conducted by the National Public Opinion Centre among 1,000 people between November 25 and December 1.

Even last year, when the economic crisis was rarely mentioned in Bulgaria, 77 per cent of Bulgarians chose to stay at home, sociologists say.

Twenty-one per cent of respondents will spend New Year's elsewhere: 4 per cent will go to a restaurant or a night club, another 4 per cent will go to a ski resort in Bulgaria or abroad, 1 per cent will be at the workplace and 0.3 per cent will go to an outdoor party or concert.

On the even of 2010, optimists outnumber pessimists: 56 per cent are optimistic about the country's future and 54 per cent are optimistic about their own future, while pessimists are respectively 34 per cent and 35 per cent.

Source: BTA