Annual Vacation Length

The European data miners still enjoy the longest vacation and Latin americans have the shortest. Interestingly, academic researchers report shorter vacation time than ones in the industry. This is not a suprise to the friends and families of our hard-working researchers.

How much vacation time you took (or plan to take) in 2011? [142 voters]
Europe (41)	4.35 weeks
US/Canada (78)	3.14 weeks
Other (Asia, AU/NZ, Africa/MidEast) (12)	3.13 weeks
Latin America (10)	2.95 weeks

(bar height corresponds to the number of people from the region, width to vacation length)

Here is a more detailed breakdown by region and employment type

and the results of KDnuggets 2008 Vacation Poll.