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Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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100%<br />

80%<br />

60%<br />

40%<br />

20%<br />

0%<br />

200<br />

PERSONAL COMPUTER<br />

35% 31% 23%<br />

ESTONIA LATVIA LITHUANIA<br />

Is personally used <strong>in</strong> one's own job<br />

Exists at one's workplace (but not used personally)<br />

Does not exist at one's workplace<br />

One does not know about PC<br />

It is noticeable <strong>in</strong> all <strong>the</strong> <strong>Baltic</strong> countries that over-50s get left out, or stay out,<br />

when it comes to <strong>the</strong> utilisation of <strong>in</strong>formation technology. In Latvia and<br />

Lithuania, only 17 % of <strong>the</strong> age<strong>in</strong>g workers (those over 50 years old) used a<br />

computer <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir job. The correspond<strong>in</strong>g proportion <strong>in</strong> Estonia was 25 % - <strong>in</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r words, clearly greater. Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, <strong>in</strong> all <strong>the</strong> <strong>Baltic</strong> countries, <strong>the</strong>re is a<br />

considerable difference between <strong>the</strong> age<strong>in</strong>g workers and <strong>the</strong> younger age<br />

groups. The use of a computer on <strong>the</strong> job <strong>in</strong> Lithuania decreases l<strong>in</strong>early as<br />

age <strong>in</strong>creases.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r feature that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Baltic</strong> countries have <strong>in</strong> common relates to <strong>the</strong> difference<br />

<strong>in</strong> microcomputer use between <strong>the</strong> genders. In all <strong>the</strong>se nations, women<br />

use a personal computer <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir job considerably more often than men do. The<br />

same phenomenon is observable <strong>in</strong> F<strong>in</strong>land, too, even though <strong>the</strong> percentages<br />

us<strong>in</strong>g a computer <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir work <strong>the</strong>re are double those of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Baltic</strong> countries.

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