How to Read Banners Banners are a simple way to display tabular data. The following provides an explanation of how to read the banners.

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1 How to Read Banners Banners are a simple way to display tabular data. The following provides an explanation of how to read the banners. 1. Thinking of the entire table as a grid of cells, each cell contains 2 numbers. The top number gives the count, which is the number of respondents in each cell. The bottom number gives the percentage of respondents in a column in each cell. This bottom number is the value used in the report. Columns read vertically down the page. 2. The table headings present the population of people, or subgroup, each column represents. 3. The Total Answering row presents the weighted number of people that answered the question excluding refusals and don t know responses that were less than 5% of the total. 4. The remaining rows present the counts and column percentages for each valid response category. 5. The banners include notations for statistical significance testing between columns. Each column is labeled at the top with letters. If a letter is under a percent, it notes that this percent is statistically different from the percent of the lettered column. Upper case lettering denotes statistically significant differences at the 95% confidence interval. Lower case lettering denotes statistically significant differences at the 90% confidence interval. For example, in the below table, 41% of the Silent-Greatest generation is concerned about their health when thinking about life after age 65. This is statistically different at the 95% confidence level from column C Gen X. Which of the following are you most concerned about when you think about your life after age 65: Children Gender Race Education Income in household Region =============================== =============== ============== ================= ============== ================ ============================== Not Less $50,000 HH No National Millenn Silent- Non- college College than or with children North- Adults ials Gen X Boomers Greatest Men Women White white graduate graduate $50,000 more children in HH east Midwest South West (G) (H) (I) (J) (K) (L) (M) (N) (O) (P) (Q) (R) (S) TOTAL ANSWERING Your health % 34% 30% 34% 41% 36% 33% 35% 34% 32% 38% 30% 39% 31% 37% 34% 38% 34% 33% C L Your finances % 42% 56% 48% 24% 43% 44% 44% 42% 45% 41% 46% 44% 51% 39% 47% 45% 39% 46% E BE E O Being lonely % 5% 2% 2% 4% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 2% 3% 2% 2% 3% 5% 3% 2% 2% d d Where you will live % 7% *% 5% 5% 5% 4% 3% 6% 6% 2% 5% 3% 4% 4% 1% 1% 7% 5% C C C K PQ p Maintaining your independence 15% 12% 12% 12% 27% 13% 17% 15% 15% 14% 17% 16% 12% 11% 17% 12% 13% 18% 14%

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1... Which of the following are you most concerned about when you think about your life after age 65: Page 2...The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st How worried are you the Boom generation will do each of the following: very worried, worried, not very worried, not worried at all: Bankrupt Social Security? Page 3...The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st How worried are you the Boom generation will do each of the following: very worried, worried, not very worried, not worried at all: Overload the health care system? Page 4...The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st How worried are you the Boom generation will do each of the following: very worried, worried, not very worried, not worried at all: Not retire from their jobs? Page 5... As they reach retirement age, do you think Boomers, those between the ages of 46 and 64, should be encouraged to stop working and retire or should they be encouraged to continue to work? Page 6...Social Security and Medicare are based on younger working generations paying for the benefits of those who retire before them. Which comes closer to your opinion:

3 Page 1 Which of the following are you most concerned about when you think about your life after age 65: TOTAL ANSWERING Your health % 34% 30% 34% 44% 37% Cd Your finances % 42% 56% 48% 29% 17% EF BEF EF F Being lonely % 5% 2% 2% 2% 7% d cde Where you will live % 7% *% 5% 3% 7% Ce C c CE Maintaining your independence 15% 12% 12% 12% 23% 31% BCD BCD

4 Page 2 The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st How worried are you the Boom generation will do each of the following: very worried, worried, not very worried, not worried at all: Bankrupt Social Security? TOTAL ANSWERING Very worried % 33% 32% 26% 24% 12% F F F F Worried % 28% 34% 36% 38% 34% Not very worried % 22% 18% 24% 26% 29% c Not worried at all % 16% 16% 14% 12% 25% cde

5 Page 3 The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st How worried are you the Boom will do each of the following: very worried, worried, not very worried, not worried at all: Overload the health care system? TOTAL ANSWERING Very worried % 17% 29% 26% 22% 17% BF bf Worried % 33% 33% 35% 40% 34% Not very worried % 29% 20% 26% 22% 30% Not worried at all % 20% 17% 13% 16% 20% d

6 Page 4 The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st How worried are you the Boom generation will do each of the following: very worried, worried, not very worried, not worried at all: Not retire from their jobs? TOTAL ANSWERING Very worried % 15% 16% 15% 8% 7% ef EF EF Worried % 24% 24% 23% 28% 24% Not very worried % 39% 29% 35% 40% 38% c Not worried at all % 22% 31% 27% 24% 31%

7 Page 5 As they reach retirement age, do you think Boomers, those between the ages of 46 and 64, should be encouraged to stop working and retire or should they be encouraged to continue to work? TOTAL ANSWERING Encouraged to stop working and retire 20% 31% 26% 16% 8% 9% DEF DEF Ef Encouraged to continue to work 71% 62% 65% 75% 80% 77% Bc BC Bc Unsure % 6% 8% 9% 12% 14% b

8 Page 6 Social Security and Medicare are based on younger working generations paying for the benefits of those who retire before them. Which comes closer to your opinion: TOTAL ANSWERING Younger, working generations should 69% 61% 71% 73% 74% 63% continue to be Bf Bf responsible for those who retire before them Younger, working generations should no 25% 37% 24% 21% 19% 23% longer be responsible CDEF for those who retire before them Unsure % 2% 4% 6% 8% 14% B B BCD