Trade union membership and paid vacation in Germany

Table 1 Descriptive statistics

	Men			Women
	All	Trade union members	Non-members	All	Trade union members	Non-members
N° of vacation days taken	28.098	29.205	27.491	27.543	29.093	27.166
Demographics:
Age	41.882	42.899	41.331	40.631	42.301	40.223
Foreigner	0.156	0.171	0.147	0.134	0.146	0.131
Highest qualification:
Apprenticeship	0.729	0.755	0.715	0.681	0.677	0.682
Academic degree	0.136	0.079	0.167	0.103	0.100	0.104
Workplace Context:
Tenure	13.099	15.032	12.040	10.495	12.831	9.926
Part-time	0.014	0.010	0.016	0.349	0.230	0.378
Temporary Contract	0.039	0.032	0.043	0.052	0.032	0.056
Firm size: < 20	0.156	0.053	0.212	0.231	0.044	0.280
Firm size: 20 ≥ & < 200	0.287	0.212	0.328	0.299	0.273	0.302
Firm size: 200 ≥ & < 2000	0.265	0.317	0.236	0.254	0.341	0.233
Firm size: ≥ 2000	0.292	0.418	0.224	0.216	0.342	0.185
White-collar worker	0.471	0.324	0.552	0.744	0.640	0.769
Years 1999, 2004 and 2009 only:
N° of vacation days taken	27.308	28.233	26.863	27.195	28.541	26.868
Vacation Entitlements in Days	29.676	30.072	29.486	29.157	30.195	28.905

Note: SOEP 1985–2010. SOEP weights are used. Each multiply imputed data set (m = 60) is an unbalanced panel of the particular survey years with N_all: 31302 (N_ ≥ 1999: 13916)