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Older people and employment in Scotland: research

An examination of attitudes and issues surrounding an older workforce.

Table 1: Gender and age profile of the sample group

Table 2: Marital status of sample group, by gender

	Single	Co-habiting	Married	Separated/ divorced	Widowed	Total
Men	1	3	8	1	1	14
Women	5	0	19	6	0	30
Total	6	3	27	7	1	44

Table 3: Employment status of sample group, by gender

	Full-time employment	Part-time employment	Self-employed	Unemployed and looking for work	Total
Men	5	4	2	3	14
Women	11	13	5	1	30
Total	16	17	7	4	44

Table 4: Occupational classification of sample group, by gender

	Men	Women	Total
Managers, directors and senior officials	1	2	3
Professional occupations	1	4	5
Associate professional and technical occupations	2	13	15
Administrative and secretarial occupations	2	5	7
Skilled trades occupations	1	0	1
Caring, leisure and other service occupations	0	1	1
Sales and customer service occupations	0	2	2
Process, plant and machine operatives	2	1	3
Elementary occupations	2	1	3
Unemployed	3	1	4
Total	14	30	44

Table 5: Distribution of sample according to Scottish household income decile groups

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Total
Participants (n)	6	6	1	3	3	6	4	5	3	2	39
NB Household income data missing for 5 participants who were unwilling to give details to the research team.

Table 6: Participants with current caring responsibilities, by gender

	Dependent children	Eldercare	Grandchildren	Multiple	None	Total
Men	6	0	0	0	8	14
Women	8	5	3	2	12	30
Total	14	5	3	2	20	44

Table 7: Ethnicity of sample group

	White Scottish/ British	White Irish	Minority ethic (South Asian)	Total
Participants (n)	38	3	3	44

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