The Sample of IT and Non-IT Professionals

The sample consists of 752 working professionals who completed the survey. Seventy-three percent are non-IT professionals; twenty-seven percent are IT professionals. Fifty-eight percent are male; forty-two percent are female.

The age range of the sample is 22 to 70 years. The mean age is 38.8 years, with a standard deviation of 9.8. Twenty-two percent of the sample are in their 20s, 33% in their 30s, 30% in their 40s, 13% in their 50s, and 2% are 60 years of age or older. On average the IT professionals in the sample are 1.7 years older than the non-IT employees.

The sample is highly educated. Ninety-three percent hold four-year college degrees, and forty-five percent have graduate school degrees. Six percent have some college, and less than one percent report having only completed high school. Mean years of formal education is 16.8 with a standard deviation of 1.5. On average non-IT professionals in the sample report having 0.8 year more formal education than the IT professionals.