Paid holidays: Number of days provided Standard Errors

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Paid holidays: Number of days provided Standard Errors

Table 33. Standard errors for paid holidays: Number of days provided, civilian workers,1 National Compensation Survey, March 2010
Characteristics	Paid holidays											Mean number of days	Median number of days
Characteristics	Less than 6 days	6 days	7 days	8 days	9 days	10 days	11 days	12 days	13 days	14 days	Greater than 14 days	Mean number of days	Median number of days
All workers	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	[2]	0.0
Worker characteristics
Management, professional, and related	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.4	[2]	0.5
Management, business, and financial	0.2	0.7	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.0
Professional and related	0.5	0.8	1.0	0.7	0.9	1.2	1.1	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.2
Teachers	1.5	1.4	1.7	1.7	1.4	1.5	2.5	1.4	1.6	1.6	1.9	0.3	0.6
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.4	1.1	2.4	3.5	2.0	�	�	2.5	0.4	0.0
Registered nurses	1.8	3.0	2.7	1.8	1.4	1.9	1.2	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.0
Service	2.1	1.3	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.2	0.0
Protective service	0.8	2.4	2.5	1.1	2.0	1.7	1.9	2.1	1.6	0.7	0.7	0.2	0.6
Sales and office	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	[2]	0.5
Sales and related	1.3	1.4	1.0	0.8	0.6	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Office and administrative support	0.5	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.4
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.1	0.7	0.9	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.2
Construction, extraction, farming, fishing, and forestry	1.8	2.1	1.8	1.6	1.2	1.1	0.9	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.0
Installation, maintenance, and repair	1.3	1.5	1.5	1.3	0.8	1.3	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.6
Production, transportation, and material moving	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.0
Production	1.2	1.2	1.4	1.1	1.1	1.2	0.9	1.0	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.1
Transportation and material moving	1.2	1.5	1.2	1.3	1.0	1.1	0.9	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.4
Full time	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	[2]	0.1
Part time	2.2	1.6	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.0
Union	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.7	1.1	0.8	1.1	0.8	0.6	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.0
Nonunion	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	[2]	0.0
Average wage within the following categories:3
Lowest 25 percent	1.6	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.0
Lowest 10 percent	3.4	2.2	1.8	1.2	1.7	0.8	0.6	0.2	�	�	0.3	0.2	0.0
Second 25 percent	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0
Third 25 percent	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.3	[2]	0.0
Highest 25 percent	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.6	1.0	0.7	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.0
Highest 10 percent	0.4	0.9	1.1	0.9	1.0	1.4	1.1	0.8	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.1	0.0
Establishment characteristics
Goods-producing industries	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	0.7	0.8	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.0
Service-providing industries	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0
Education and health services	0.7	1.3	1.1	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.3	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.1	0.1
Educational services	0.8	0.6	1.0	1.2	0.8	1.6	1.9	0.8	1.2	0.9	1.2	0.1	0.0
Elementary and secondary schools	1.2	1.1	1.2	0.9	1.0	1.5	1.7	0.8	1.8	1.2	1.4	0.2	0.6
Junior colleges, colleges, and universities	0.6	0.2	1.0	2.7	1.5	3.0	4.1	1.5	1.6	1.3	2.2	0.2	0.8
Health care and social assistance	1.1	2.0	1.7	1.4	1.5	1.6	1.3	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.1	0.5
Hospitals	1.3	2.6	2.0	1.6	1.4	1.6	2.4	1.4	1.0	�	�	0.1	0.2
Public administration	0.1	�	�	0.3	2.8	1.8	1.8	2.0	1.3	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.5
1 to 99 workers	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.2	[2]	0.0
1 to 49 workers	0.8	1.1	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.0
50 to 99 workers	1.2	1.5	1.3	1.1	1.3	1.0	0.8	1.1	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.3
100 workers or more	0.9	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.0
100 to 499 workers	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0
500 workers or more	1.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.2	0.7	0.5	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.0
Geographic areas
New England	1.1	1.8	1.9	1.2	1.5	1.5	2.0	1.9	0.7	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.0
Middle Atlantic	1.5	1.1	0.8	0.8	1.0	1.5	0.8	1.0	0.5	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.0
East North Central	1.1	1.3	1.3	1.1	1.3	1.3	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.1	0.0
West North Central	0.8	1.8	2.5	1.7	1.2	1.0	�	1.0	1.0	�	0.3	0.1	1.0
South Atlantic	1.2	1.3	1.0	0.9	0.8	1.1	0.8	0.8	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	[2]
East South Central	5.9	1.8	1.7	3.0	1.4	2.4	1.8	1.1	0.4	0.2	1.6	0.5	0.8
West South Central	1.1	1.2	1.0	1.0	1.3	1.7	1.2	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.1	0.0
Mountain	1.1	2.0	1.9	2.5	1.5	1.3	1.8	1.1	0.8	�	�	0.1	0.0
Pacific	0.9	1.3	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.0	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.8
Footnotes:
1Includes workers in the private nonfarm economy except those in private households, and workers in the public sector, except the federal government. See Technical Note for further explanation. 2Less than 0.05. 3The categories are based on the average wage for each occupation surveyed, which may include workers with earnings both above and below the threshold. The average wages are based on the estimates published in the "National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2009." See Technical Note for more details. NOTE: Dash indicates no workers in this category or data did not meet publication criteria. For definitions of major plans, key provisions, and related terms, see the "Glossary of Employee Benefit Terms" at www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/glossary20092010.htm.