FTA: "it is estimated that 28.3% of the EU population aged 16 or over could not afford a one-week annual holiday away from home in 2018"
Surely including 16 year olds is skewing these numbers.
Surely including 16 year olds is skewing these numbers.
For example looking at incomes. If you're a college kid making $5K over the summer, you're counted as being below the poverty level.
But, the census bureau also calculates an additional poverty rate that excludes college students.
But sponsored through parents/relatives, more 16-year olds than the population mean may be able to take a vacation, given your vacation at 16 years old is likely to be cheap, relative to an older person's vacation.
Either themselves or with a student organisation.
Sort of a vacation. It used to be very popular to "tågluffa" here when I grew up, which means getting a train pass and just seeing Europe by rail.