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Figure 11: Employment rates of older Polish females, 1992-2006
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
50-54-year-olds
60-64-year-olds
55-59-year-olds
65-year-olds and older
Source: OECD.
With regard to retirement preferences of plans of Polish workers, no representative
survey has been conducted to date which would be comparable with German results, nor has
Poland been included in respective Eurobarometer surveys. In 2006, the Polish LFS
included questions on expected/planned age of exit from the labour market, but only 712
persons gave a concrete age at which they planned to retire – it was 60.6 years; 62.7 in the
case of men and 58.3 years in the case of women (Zgierska 2007: 7). The distribution of all
answers is given in Table 8.
Table 8: Planned age of exit from the labour market
concrete age was given (later subsumed in the below age
ranges)
between
50-54
between
55-59
between
60-64
between
65-69
between
70-75
before
completion of
60th year
without concrete plans
between the
age of 60-
64
at the age
of 65+
I intend to
work as
long as I
will be
able to
total 0.5% 4.7% 9% 6.4% 0.5% 8.5% 12.2% 12% 33%
men 0.2% 2% 6% 10.3% 0.7% 3.6% 11.2% 18.7% 33%
women 0.9% 8.6% 13% 1% 0.1% 15.5% 13.5% 2.7% 32%
Source: Zgierska (2007: 7; LFS data).
The question was addressed at workers aged 50-69 years.
Recurrent surveys by CBOS in 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007 studied the opinions of
respondents on optimum retirement ages for both sexes. The vast majority of Poles of both
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