Download to read offline
Martinez Polling Company Final Report (1)
- 1. Survey Report: Findingson Attitudes on Athletes as Employees 19 April 2016 Contact: Alexandria Martinez alexandria_martinez@emerson.edu 973-262-5985 150 Boylston Street Boston, Mass 02116
- 2.
- 3.
- 4. 4 we wanted to ask the random sample of respondents. Overall, the results that we found were almost aligned to what we thought when we started this survey. Age played a major role in the findings, but gender did not. We did run into a few problems and it was because we did not receive as many respondents as we wanted and we could not determine the race or region because those questions were not asked. We are excited to share the rest of our findings! Executive Summary ➔ Since n=42, the relevance of the most of the crosstabs using the chisquare test was not there. Age had the most relevance in regards to the questions that we asked like “If you played sports, did you put it on your resume” ➔ 1829 were the highest age group with putting that they played sports on their resumes with 50%. ◆This cross tab of How old are you/If you have played sports was relevant because it passed the Chi Square test ◆ Every other age group had less than 20% of respondents that put that they played sports on their resume
- 5. 5 ➔ 50% of 5064 year old did not put that they played sports on their resumes, even when they did in fact play sports. 30 49 year olds followed closely behind with 47% of not putting that they played sports on their resume. ◆ Usually these age groups have established jobs where they might not have updated their resumes so adding that bit of information might seem irrelevant to them ➔47% of 3049 year olds did not play sports but 100% of the 65 and over age group did not play sports either. ➔ All the ages groups combined 43% of people did not put that they played sports on their resumes when they did play sports in some capacity. 33 % of people did not play sports and 24% did play sports and did put in on their resumes. ➔ Age played another role in the aspect of sports. ◆ In the crosstab “How old are you/Did you play sports in high school/college?” it was relevant because it passed the Chi Square Test. ➔ 50% of 5064 year old years played sports in high school while 0 % played in college ◆ 50% of this age group did not even play sports.
- 6. 6 ➔ 44% of 1829 year olds played sports in both high school and college while 44% only played in high school and 13% did not play sports. ◆ There is a push for younger generations to play sports in college, but this means that it is a more competitive atmosphere ➔42% of 3049 year olds played sports in high school while 5% played both in high school and college and 53% did not play sports at all. ➔ 50% of 5064 year olds played sports in high school, while 50 % did not play sports at all. ◆ It has to question what do people label as “Sports”, is it playing pickup basketball with neighbors or actually being on the team for your school. ➔ 100% of the 65+ age group did not play sports at all. ➔ With all the age group combined 43% of the respondents played sports in high school, 19% played both sports in high school and college and 38% did not play sports at all. Key Findings Gender and the Role of Sports ➔ Asking what the respondents gender and if they played sports in high school or college gave interesting responses , 50% of females played in high school while 40% of males played in high school , 11 % of females played sports in both high school and college while 22% of males played both. 39% of females did not play sports at all and 40% of males did not play sports either. ◆ There were more male responses than females so the fact that males doubled might not be the case if there was equal male and female respondents. ◆ Again playing sports is a different for people in different regions because the competition level is different. ◆ Also playing sports could mean being on a recreational team at your university, not necessarily a varsity team. ◆ Also, females study different things at college than males do, so maybe they could not play sports at a college because they did not offer that sport.
- 7. 7 ➔ Females who played sports in high school or college, 22% of them also put it on their resume while 44% of females did not put in on their resume if they played sports. ◆ This could mean that they did not think it was important or did not play sports long enough to show being able to stick with something for a longer period of time. ➔Males who played sports in high school only 22% of them put it on their resume while 44% did not put in their resume ◆ There was a high number of both males and females who played sports not put that they played sports on their resume. ➔ 56% of females thought that playing sports has increased their chances of being hired, while 6% thought that it decreased ◆ This shows that playing sports does help you in the workforce. It is interesting that a percentage thought it decreased her chances, this just shows that you need more information to fully understand why someone answered the way they did.
- 8. 8 ➔ 52% of males thought that playing sports increased their chances of being hired, but 4% thought that it decreased their chances ◆ There are similar statistics between the male and female viewed on getting hired. ➔39% of females did not play sports and 44% of males also did not play sports. ◆ There was a relatively high number of respondents that did not play sports. This is where it would have been better to understand more about the respondents. Age and the Role of Sports ➔ In the 1829 age group, 81% of the respondents believed that playing sports increased their chances of getting hired, while 6% believed that it decreased their chances ◆ 13% of this age group did not play sports ➔ In the 3049 age group, 37% of respondents believed that playing sports increased their chances of getting hired, while 5% thought that it decreased their chances ◆ 58% of this age group did not play sports ➔ In the 5064 age group, 50% of the respondents believed that playing sports increased their chances of getting hired, while none thought that it decreased their chances ◆ 50% of this age group did not play sports
- 9. 9 ➔ In the 65+, there was only one respondent so they did not play sports ➔ Many of the respondents did not have a company affiliated sports team ◆88% of 1829 year olds, 90% of 3049, 83% of 5064, and 100% of 65+ ➔ There was small amount that had company affiliated sports teams ◆ 13% of 1829, 11% of 3049, 17 of 5064, and 0% of 65+ ➔ A majority of the respondents know 15 people who played sports in high school or college with 43% while 5% of people know 1115 people who played sports in high school or college ➔ All respondents above the age of 30 believed that being a team player makes good employee while 14 % of respondents under the age of 29 did not believe that being a team player makes you a good employee. ◆ This could mean that the definition of a good employee is evolving and has different meanings to different age groups. ➔ All respondents above the age of 30 believed that being a multi tasker makes a good employee while 14% of people under the age of 29 did not believe that being a multi tasker makes a good employee
- 10.
- 11.