Agreement that the kind of job the respondent is qualified for is not available, a checklist item asked in the 2013 and 2015 SHED only of respondents who said they lacked confidence that they have the skills for the jobs they want.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 83% answered “Does not agree” in Fed SHED: Agrees the job they are qualified for is unavailable, 2015.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fed SHED: Agrees the job they are qualified for is unavailable | Agrees the job they are qualified for is unavailable [The kind of job I'm qualified for is not available] Which of these statements, if any, do you agree with? Caveat: Checkbox-style item from a multi-item list, with No meaning not selected | identical | No → Does not agree; Yes → Agrees |
| Fed SHED: Job I'm qualified for is not available | Job I'm qualified for is not available [The kind of job I’m qualified for is not available] You expressed some lack of Caveat: Wording truncated; checkbox-style item from a multi-item list, with No meaning not selected | equivalent | No → Does not agree; Yes → Agrees |