AP poll method, questions and results

The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on public attitudes about travel was conducted May 15-17 and is based on telephone interviews with 1,000 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii.

As is routinely done in polls, results were weighted, or adjusted, to ensure that responses accurately reflect the population's makeup by factors such as age, sex, region, race and income.

No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the overall sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 3 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all people in the U.S. were polled.

For the responses from the 523 people who said they took vacations in the last year, the margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions. Results may not total 100 percent because of rounding. An "X" signifies less than 1 percent.

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Are you planning to take a trip in the next 12 months, or not?

_Yes, 58 percent

_No, 41 percent

_Don't Know/Not sure, 1 percent

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Did you happen to take a vacation trip in the last 12 months, or not?

_Yes, 52 percent

_No, 48 percent

_Don't Know/Not sure, X percent

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On your most recent vacation, did you happen to do any of the following? (Asked only of those who took a vacation trip in the last 12 months.)

Take your cell phone with you

_Yes, 80 percent

_No, 20 percent

Take a laptop computer with you

_Yes, 19 percent

_No, 81 percent

Read a book

_Yes, 60 percent

_No, 40 percent

Read a newspaper

_Yes, 68 percent

_No, 32 percent

Check your e-mail

_Yes, 38 percent

_No, 62 percent

Check your personal messages or personal voice mail

_Yes, 50 percent

_No, 50 percent

Check your work messages or work voice mail

_Yes, 20 percent

_No, 80 percent

Call your work to check in

_Yes, 15 percent

_No, 85 percent

Do work even though you were technically on vacation

_Yes, 19 percent

_No, 81 percent

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