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Table 1 Intentions to retire early (%) by age, SOC, language, relationship with parents at childhood, difficulties at childhood, education, job demands, skill utilization, having a partner, social support, alcohol intoxication, smoking, somatic disease and depression. Women and men.

From: Sense of coherence and intentions to retire early among Finnish women and men

 

Women

Men

Distribution

 

No intentions

Weak intentions

Strong intentions

No intentions

Weak intentions

Strong intentions

Women

Men

Age

        

30-34

95.6

4.0

0.4

92.8

6.0

1.3

35

32

40-44

90.0

8.7

1.4

85.0

12.4

2.7

36

35

50-54

57.9

28.5

13.5

46.9

36.1

17.0

29

33

       

100 (7409)

100 (4866)

SOC

65.4

63.6

64.4

66.9

64.8

63.8

N = 7409

N= 4866

Language

        

Finnish

82.3

13.0

4.6

74.1

18.8

7.1

81

88

Swedish

86.7

10.0

3.2

80.1

13.6

6.2

9

12

       

100 (7409)

100 (4866)

Relationship with parents at childhood

        

Good to both

83.2

12.7

4.1

76.5

17.2

6.3

60

66

Good to one/neutral or bad to another

83.1

11.9

5.1

71.4

20.5

8.2

28

25

Bad to both

80.3

14.4

5.3

72.8

18.7

8.5

12

9

       

100 (7409)

100 (4866)

Difficulties at childhood

        

No

86.2

10.3

3.5

80.9

14.0

5.1

39

46

Yes (1-6)

82.1

13.2

4.8

72.1

20.7

7.3

61

54

       

100 (5666)

100 (3749)

Education

        

Higher

87.3

10.3

2.3

82.4

14.0

3.6

19

21

Higher secondary

85.9

10.1

4.0

76.2

18.0

5.8

40

28

Lower secondary

81.7

14.8

3.5

76.8

16.5

6.7

19

29

Primary

74.3

17.7

8.1

63.4

24.5

12.1

22

22

Job demands

        

Low

85.4

11.1

3.4

77.0

16.4

6.6

20

20

Average

83.3

12.6

4.2

76.8

17.2

6.0

41

45

High

80.8

13.9

5.2

72.5

20.7

6.9

20

20

Non-employed

      

19

15

       

100 (7409)

100 (4866)

Skill utilization

        

High

84.1

12.1

3.9

76.9

17.5

5.6

40

50

Average

82.2

12.8

5.0

73.7

18.8

7.5

28

27

Low

81.8

13.6

4.6

74.0

17.9

8.1

19

15

Non-employed

      

13

8

       

100 (7409)

100 (4866)

Having a partner

        

Yes

83.3

12.5

4.2

74.3

18.7

7.1

77

79

No

81.1

13.5

5.5

77.4

15.9

6.7

23

21

       

100 (7404)

100 (4861)

Social support

        

18->

87.1

8.9

4.1

82.4

12.8

4.7

11

6

12-17

86.3

10.5

3.1

81.2

13.4

5.5

30

18

6-11

80.5

14.2

5.3

72.9

19.5

7.6

52

63

0-5

78.2

16.7

5.1

72.0

21.5

6.6

7

13

       

100 (7373)

100 (4808)

Alcohol intoxication

        

Once a week or more

        

No

83.1

12.5

4.4

75.1

18.2

6.7

97

89

Yes

80.3

13.3

6.4

71.2

18.5

10.3

3

11

       

100 (7176)

100 (4748)

Smoking

        

No

82.2

13.6

4.2

79.2

15.3

5.5

51

38

Used to

83.7

11.5

4.8

70.8

20.3

8.9

27

35

< 5/day

83.6

12.8

3.6

80.5

15.9

3.7

3

2

> 5/day

82.3

12.5

5.3

72.8

19.6

7.6

19

25

       

100 (6961)

100 (4366)

Somatic disease

        

No

89.1

8.2

2.6

84.2

12.3

3.3

37

40

Yes (at least one)

79.6

15.1

5.2

69.4

21.5

9.1

63

60

       

100 (7261)

100 (4774)

Depression (BDI-21)

        

No

84.5

11.3

4.0

77.1

16.6

6.2

80.2

84.4

Mild

77.6

16.4

5.8

63.9

25.3

10.7

15.9

12.7

Moderate

65.1

27.8

6.9

62.1

27.2

10.6

3.4

2.7

Severe

76.7

11.6

11.6

50.0

30.0

20.0

0.5 (7374)

0.2(4827)