2018 was a record year as regards the percentage of households that arranged for their school-age children to go away for at least a week during the summer holidays. Since then there has been a return to the levels observed in 2016–2017. This year a little over two thirds (68%) of households with school-age children arranged for them to go away for at least a week during the summer holidays. This is 6 percentage points less than last year. The decrease in households where all the children went away was even more marked, from 65% to 57%. Compared to 2018, there was a clear increase in households with school-age children which declared that none of the children went away for at least a week’s holiday (a rise of 6 percentage points to 32%) and a slight increase in those saying that not all their children went away (a rise from 9% to 11%). It is worth noting that for the fifth year running, the majority of households with school-age children were able to give all of them at least a week away. In the period 1993–2013 this percentage was considerably lower.

More on this subject in the CBOS report.