The FINANCIAL -- According to the new Rasmussen Reports, national telephone survey finds
that 38% of American Adults plan to take a summer vacation this year,
while 54% do not.
That’s virtually unchanged from last summer, when 35% planned to take a vacation.
Looks like Americans held true to their plans, since 36% say they took a summer vacation last year, while 61% did not. It’s important to note, though, that the questions did not specify what qualifies as a “vacation.”
For the previous two years, 38% of Adults planned to vacation during the summer. In late May 2006, 55% of Americans planned to take a summer vacation.
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on May 24-25, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/-3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Married adults and adults with children at home are more likely to take a summer vacation than unmarried adults and those without children are.
Higher-income adults are significantly more likely than those with lower incomes to take a vacation this summer.
Sixty percent (60%) of those who took a vacation last year and plan to do so again this year say economic conditions have caused them to cut back on the amount they spend on this year’s vacation. Thirty-one percent (31%) do not expect current economic conditions to hold them back. Last year, 64% said the economy caused them to cut back on their vacation spending.
In 2008, 69% said gasoline prices impacted their summer vacation plans. That may happen again this year, since 72% say $5-a-gallon gas is likely by July.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of adults planned on taking a vacation this past winter, slightly higher than in previous years, and just as many (23%) planned on a spring vacation.
But summer still reigns supreme for vacations. In late 2010, 45% said summer is their favorite time to take a vacation.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
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