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Agreement that the respondent's skills are out of date because they have not been using them, a checklist item asked in the 2013 and 2015 SHED only of respondents who said they lacked confidence that they have the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Latest: 26% answered “Yes, agree” in Fed SHED: Agrees their skills are out of date from disuse, 2015.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| Fed SHED: Agrees their skills are out of date from disuse | Agrees their skills are out of date from disuse [My skills are out of date because I haven't been using them] Which of these statements, if any, do you agree with?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| Fed SHED: Skills out of date from lack of use | Skills out of date from lack of use [My skills are out of date because I haven’t been using them] You expressed some Caveat: Wording stem truncated in the 2013 item; binary checklist-style response.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 |