For Canadians, jackpots and jobs go hand-in-hand: survey
- April 25, 2008 3:04 PM
- By Commodities
A $5-million lottery windfall would not be enough to prompt many Canadians to hand in their resignation papers, according to a survey released Friday.
According to the RBC survey conducted by Ipsos Reid, 52 per cent of employed respondents said they would continue working even if they won a $5-million jackpot tomorrow. Another 35 per cent said they would leave the working world and retire immediately.
Eight per cent of respondents said they would go back to school and three per cent said they would open a charitable institution.
People most likely to say they would retire immediately were between 45 and 65 years old and female, the survey found. These respondents also tended to be working part-time in unionized positions.
The RBC survey was conducted online from Nov. 5 through Nov. 15, 2007, and involved 2,052 employed Canadians. The survey results are accurate to within plus or minus 2.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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