Table 1.

Personal Support Worker Characteristics and Intent to Turnover, Survey of Long-term Care Staff in Ontario, Canada

	Total		Intent to turnover = yes
Variable	n total	%column	n turnover	%turnover (nturnover/ntotal)
Total	5,513	100.0	971	17.6
Individual-level characteristics
Age (in years)
Under 30	569	10.3	144	25.3
30–39	1,046	19.0	237	22.7
40–49	1,730	31.4	323	18.7
50–59	1,745	31.7	239	13.7
60 and over	423	7.7	28	6.6
Sex
Female	5,143	93.3	879	17.1
Male	370	6.7	92	24.9
Highest level of education completed
High school or less	1,272	23.1	175	13.8
College diploma	3,888	70.5	701	18.0
University (undergraduate degree or higher)	353	6.4	95	26.9
Job status
Full time	2,787	50.6	401	14.4
Part time or Casual	2,726	49.5	570	20.9
Usual shifts worked
Weekday days	2,644	48.0	433	16.4
Other	2,869	52.0	538	18.8
Number of years working in current LTC home
Less than one year	387	7.0	94	24.3
1–2 years	585	10.6	136	23.2
3–4 years	739	13.4	140	18.9
5 or more years	3,802	69.0	601	15.8
Overall happiness
Very unhappy or unhappy	510	9.3	222	43.5
Neither happy nor unhappy	1,104	20.0	332	30.1
Happy or very happy	3,899	70.7	417	10.7
Long-term care (LTC) home-level characteristics
Size (number of beds)
64 or fewer	660	12.0	119	18.0
65–128	1,873	34.0	336	17.9
129–192	1,902	34.5	317	16.7
193 or more	1,078	19.6	199	18.5
Ownership
Municipal	1,234	22.4	179	14.5
Charitable	556	10.1	88	15.8
Nursing, for profit	2,734	49.6	506	18.5
Nursing, not-for-profit	989	17.9	198	20.0
Location
Rural	1,113	20.2	190	17.1
Non-rural	4,400	79.8	781	17.8