Ways to spend the holiday January 2007

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1 Ways to spend the holiday January 2007

2 Objectives The study aims to present a description on how Romanian people spent their vacations in At the same time, this study proposes to draw an analysis on the number of days of vacation that Romanian employees have beneficiated.

3 Table of contents Ways to spend vacation Number of days of vacation Ways of spending vacation Demographic profile

4 Methodology Research method Survey Target population People aged 18-65, living in urban enviroment Data collection technique Telephone interviews Sample size 1000 respondents Fiekdwork January 2007 Sampling error +/- 3 %

5 Summary 16% of Romanian people didn t take their holiday in 2006, while other 35% had less than 20 days of vacation during the same period of time. Among all professional categories, at one pole we find managers and employers with an average of 15 days of vacation and workers with an average of 16 days of vacation. At the other pole, we find medium and high education employees, with 20 and respectively 21 days of vacation, on average. 50% of Romanian people spent their vacation at home. Other 48% took their holiday by travelling inside the country, while 11% of them travelled abroad. Only 2 out of 3 persons who travelled inside the country and 3 out of 4 persons who travelled abroad paid for the accomodation services. The others visited their relatives or their friends. Although managers and employers had fewer days of vacation (on average), one third of them spend their holidays abroad. Furthermore, managers and employers, along with graduated employees spent less time of their holiday at home. The survey was conducted by Daedalus Consulting on a sample of 1000 persons, aged between 18 and 65 years old. It is an urban nationally representative study. The sampling error is +/-3%.

6 Number of vacation days taken Occupation More than 30 de days Total (employees) % Employer/ Manager Employees with high education Employees with medium education Worker days days 1-10 days I did not have vacation (N=780) (n=104) (n=169) (n=274) (n=175) Q 14. Approximately, how many days of vacation did you have in 2006?

7 Ways of spending vacation (1) Total N=654 (persons who took their holiday in 2006) I stayed at home I have spent my vacation in Romania % I have taken a trip in the country for which I have paid accommodation services N=315 (persons who spent the holiday inside the country) I have visited relatives/friends % I have spent my vacation abroad 10.7 I have spent my holiday at my personal vacation house Other N=70 (persons who took their holidays abroad) % I have taken a trip abroad for which I have paid accommodation services 75.9 I have visited realtives/friends abroad 26.9 Q 15. How did you spend your vacation in 2006?

8 Ways of spending vacation (2) Base: persons who took their holiday in 2006 Occcupation Total N=654 Employer/ Manager n=81 % Employee with high education level n=153 I stayed at home I have spent my vacation in Romania I have spent my vacation abroad I have spent my holiday at my personal vacation house Other Q 15. How did you spend your vacation in 2006?

9 Ways of spending vacation (3) Base: persons who took their holiday in 2006 Occupation Total N=654 Employee with medium Worker education n=240 % n=143 I stayed at home I have spent my vacation in Romania I have spent my vacation abroad I have spent my holiday at my personal vacation house Other Q 15. How did you spend your vacation in 2006?

10 Demographic Profile

11 Demographic profile of the respondents Total N=1000 Age Sex 15.3% 16.4% 23.0% 23.7% 48.3% 51.7% 21.7% years years years years years Female Male

12 Demographic profile of the respondents Total N=1000 Occupation Education 9.5% 10.0% 11.1% 15.6% 14.8% 25.4% 19.7% 7.6% 8.4% 25.6% 16.8% Enterprising/ Employer/ Manager/ Director Professional,employee with higher education Employee with medium education Worker Pupil/Student Pensioner Other non working categories 35.4% 8 grades or less 10 grades/ Vocational School Highschool College Faculty

13 Demographic profile of the respondents Total N=1000 Marital status Number of members in household 8.1% 24.7% 11.6% 6.4% 24.3% 27.5% 67.2% 30.2% Unmarried Married/Living with partner Divorced/Widow/Widower 1 member 2 members 3 members 4 members 5 members or more

14 Demographic profile of the respondents Personal monthly net income (EUR) Monthly net income per family member (EUR) Total N= % 0.8% 18.6% 9.1% 12.7% 33.2% 22.5% 18.3% 12.9% 21.6% 8.7% 9.3% 22.7% No income Under 100 EUR EUR EUR EUR More than 300 EUR Don't know/no answer Under 100 EUR EUR EUR EUR More than 300 EUR Don't know/no answer

15 Demographic profile of the respondents Total N=1000 Historical region Urbanization degree 16.7% 17.5% 16.7% 29.6% 21.3% 30.2% 24.5% 14.4% 29.2% Moldova Less than 50,000 inhabitants Muntenia, Oltenia, Dobrogea Banat, Crisana, Maramures Ardeal Bucharest 50, ,000 inhabitants 200,000 inhabitants or more Bucharest