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Agreement that the respondent's skills are out of date because they have not been using them, a checklist item asked in the 2013 and 2015 SHED only of respondents who said they lacked confidence that they have the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Latest: 74% answered “No, do not agree” in Fed SHED: Agrees their skills are out of date from disuse, 2015.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. 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| Fed SHED: Agrees their skills are out of date from disuse | Agrees their skills are out of date from disuse [My skills are out of date because I haven't been using them] Which of these statements, if any, do you agree with? Caveat: Checklist item (select if agree); 'No' means not selected, not an explicit disagreement. | identical | No → No, do not agree; Yes → Yes, agree |
| Fed SHED: Skills out of date from lack of use | Skills out of date from lack of use [My skills are out of date because I haven’t been using them] You expressed some Caveat: Wording stem truncated in the 2013 item; binary checklist-style response. | identical | No → No, do not agree; Yes → Yes, agree |