Retirement intentions in the presence of technological change: theory and evidence from France

Table 4 Descriptive statistics

	Intended retirement age
Variables	Less than 60	60-64	65 or more	All
Individual characteristics
Age	52.38	52.43	52.38	52.41
Single	0.127	0.160	0.204	0.153
Education
Primary	0.385	0.279	0.293	0.322
Secondary/Vocational	0.510	0.405	0.265	0.428
High School	0.056	0.123	0.156	0.101
Undergraduate	0.031	0.099	0.075	0.070
Graduate/Postgraduate	0.018	0.094	0.211	0.080
Occupation
Managers	0.076	0.250	0.333	0.193
Technicians	0.245	0.250	0.197	0.242
Clerical workers	0.105	0.099	0.116	0.104
Blue-collar workers	0.575	0.400	0.354	0.462
Good/very good health	0.728	0.787	0.816	0.768
Public sector	0.140	0.197	0.143	0.168
Part-time job	0.022	0.036	0.088	0.037
Years to full pension age	3.737	5.535	6.680	4.984
Aggregated variables for workers aged 24-49 years
At the industry-occupation level
Average probability of a technical change	0.344	0.314	0.308	0.325
Average probability of skill updating	0.199	0.227	0.231	0.217
Number of observations	449	563	147	1159
Share of employed workers	38.74%	48.58%	12.68%	100%