TABLE 5.
Numbers and Percentages of Responses Favoring Older Workers, Favoring Younger Workers, or That Were Neutral with Regard to Each of the 13 Worker-Related Attributes
| Worker-Related Attribute | N | Older Workers Are: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less/Worse |
About the Same |
More/Better |
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| n | Percentage [95% CI] | n | Percentage [95% CI] | n | Percentage [95% CI] | ||
| Trustworthiness | 305 | 1 | 0.3 [0.0–1.5] |
199 | 65.2 [59.8–70.4] |
105 | 34.4 [29.3–39.9] |
| Reliability | 303 | 11 | 3.6 [1.9–6.2] |
155 | 51.2 [45.5–56.8] |
137 | 45.2 [39.7–50.8] |
| Ability to work independently | 306 | 22 | 7.2 [4.7–10.5] |
171 | 55.9 [50.3–61.4] |
113 | 36.9 [31.7–42.4] |
| Time-management ability | 305 | 25 | 8.2 [5.5–11.7] |
172 | 56.4 [50.8–61.9] |
108 | 35.4 [30.2–40.9] |
| Maturity | 306 | 4 | 1.3 [0.4–3.1] |
60 | 19.6 [15.5–24.3] |
242 | 79.1 [74.3–83.4] |
| Experience in the work activity | 305 | 2 | 0.7 [0.1–2.1] |
65 | 21.3 [17.0–26.2] |
238 | 78.0 [73.1–82.4] |
| Technology skills | 306 | 218 | 71.2 [66.0–76.1] |
79 | 25.8 [21.2–30.9] |
9 | 2.9 [1.5–5.3] |
| Ability to make adjustments to work | 305 | 141 | 46.2 [40.7–51.8] |
130 | 42.6 [37.2–48.2] |
34 | 11.1 [8.0–15.0] |
| Verbal communication ability | 305 | 24 | 7.9 [5.2–11.3] |
193 | 63.3 [57.8–68.5] |
88 | 28.9 [24.0–34.1] |
| Writing ability | 305 | 22 | 7.2 [4.7–10.5] |
168 | 55.1 [49.5–60.6] |
115 | 37.7 [32.4–43.2] |
| Ability to work on teams | 305 | 64 | 21.0 [16.7–25.8] |
206 | 67.5 [62.1–72.6] |
35 | 11.5 [8.3–15.4] |
| Tenure (time on the job) | 305 | 1 | 0.3 [0.0–1.5] |
43 | 14.1 [10.5–18.3] |
261 | 85.6 [81.3–89.2] |
| Health status | 304 | 187 | 61.5 [56.0–66.9] |
112 | 36.8 [31.6–42.4] |
5 | 1.6 [0.6–3.6] |
Note. CI: confidence interval.