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

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The ageing workers, therefore, use information technology devices less commonly
than the younger ones, but also less in terms of time. A survey including
only those working people who utilise a computer or/and a mobile phone
in their job, shows that the ageing workers spend less time using these devices
than the younger ones do. In other words, the ageing ones make altogether less
use of information technology than do the younger, in both an extensive and
an intensive sense. In all the Baltic countries the percentage who use information
technology practically all the time in their work is tied to age. The
younger the age group 6 in question, the greater the percentage who work all
the time using modern information technology, and vice versa.
In Latvia and Estonia, a slight majority of those who use a computer or mobile
phone on the job (54 % and 53 %) use them during at least half of their working
hours. The corresponding proportion in Lithuania is a little under half (47
%). Those using these devices continually in their work constitute in Latvia
almost one-third (30 %), and in Estonia and Lithuania about one-quarter (26 %
and 27 %), of those working people whose job involves making some use of
either or both devices.
6 A survey of only those working people who use a computer or/and a mobile phone in their work
reveals the following. In Estonia, 28 % of the under-30s, 26 % of the 30-49 year olds, and 24 % of
those aged 50 years and over said that they used information technology devices in their job
practically all the time. In Latvia, the proportions were 36 % of the under-30s, 29 % of the 30-49 year
olds and 22 % of those 50 years and over. In Lithuania, the proportions were as follows: 33 % of the
under-30s, 27 % of the 30-49 year olds and 19 % of those aged 50 and over.