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 1000 184 233 370 203 491 508 649 322 602 386 449 447 375 619 192 215 370 223 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Your health 347 63 69 128 84 179 168 228 108 195 146 133 173 117 229 66 83 125 74 35% 34% 30% 34% 41% 36% 33% 35% 34% 32% 38% 30% 39% 31% 37% 34% 38% 34% 33% C L Your finances 434 77 131 176 48 213 222 287 134 272 159 207 198 192 240 91 96 146 102 43% 42% 56% 48% 24% 43% 44% 44% 42% 45% 41% 46% 44% 51% 39% 47% 45% 39% 46% E BE E O Being lonely 28 9 5 6 8 15 13 17 11 19 10 14 8 8 20 9 6 8 5 3% 5% 2% 2% 4% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 2% 3% 2% 2% 3% 5% 3% 2% 2% d d Where you will live 42 13 1 17 9 22 19 21 21 34 7 23 13 16 24 3 3 26 10 4% 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 148 21 28 44 54 62 86 96 48 81 65 71 55 42 106 24 28 65 31 independence 15% 12% 12% 12% 27% 13% 17% 15% 15% 14% 17% 16% 12% 11% 17% 12% 13% 18% 14%
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 2011. 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 2011. 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 2011. 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:
Page 1 Which of the following are you most concerned about when you think about your life after age 65: TOTAL ANSWERING 1000 184 233 370 118 85 Your health 347 63 69 128 52 32 35% 34% 30% 34% 44% 37% Cd Your finances 434 77 131 176 34 15 43% 42% 56% 48% 29% 17% EF BEF EF F Being lonely 28 9 5 6 2 6 3% 5% 2% 2% 2% 7% d cde Where you will live 42 13 1 17 3 6 4% 7% *% 5% 3% 7% Ce C c CE Maintaining your 148 21 28 44 27 27 independence 15% 12% 12% 12% 23% 31% BCD BCD
Page 2 The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st 2011. 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 1008 185 234 370 121 88 Very worried 275 62 76 95 29 11 27% 33% 32% 26% 24% 12% F F F F Worried 342 52 79 134 46 30 34% 28% 34% 36% 38% 34% Not very worried 232 41 43 88 31 25 23% 22% 18% 24% 26% 29% c Not worried at all 159 30 37 53 15 22 16% 16% 16% 14% 12% 25% cde
Page 3 The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st 2011. 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 1003 187 233 365 118 90 Very worried 237 32 68 95 26 15 24% 17% 29% 26% 22% 17% BF bf Worried 349 61 77 129 48 30 35% 33% 33% 35% 40% 34% Not very worried 252 55 48 94 26 27 25% 29% 20% 26% 22% 30% Not worried at all 165 38 40 47 19 18 16% 20% 17% 13% 16% 20% d
Page 4 The first of the baby boom generation will turn 65 on January 1st 2011. 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 1001 187 234 371 115 85 Very worried 138 27 38 56 9 6 14% 15% 16% 15% 8% 7% ef EF EF Worried 241 46 55 84 33 20 24% 24% 24% 23% 28% 24% Not very worried 349 72 67 130 46 32 35% 39% 29% 35% 40% 38% c Not worried at all 273 42 73 101 28 26 27% 22% 31% 27% 24% 31%
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 1016 185 232 375 120 94 Encouraged to stop 199 58 61 59 9 9 working and retire 20% 31% 26% 16% 8% 9% DEF DEF Ef Encouraged to continue 723 116 152 281 96 73 to work 71% 62% 65% 75% 80% 77% Bc BC Bc Unsure 95 12 19 34 14 13 9% 6% 8% 9% 12% 14% b
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 1013 187 231 374 122 90 Younger, working 702 114 164 273 90 57 generations should 69% 61% 71% 73% 74% 63% continue to be Bf Bf responsible for those who retire before them Younger, working 250 69 56 78 23 21 generations should no 25% 37% 24% 21% 19% 23% longer be responsible CDEF for those who retire before them Unsure 60 4 10 24 9 13 6% 2% 4% 6% 8% 14% B B BCD