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12.

Findings (Cont'd.):

SICKNESS

BENEFIT

LIFE INSURANCE

RETIREMENT

BENEFIT

HOUSING

LOAN

56

Totally employer

900 43.1%

518

24.8% 1174 56.2% 244 11.7%

Shared between

employer and

employee

987

47.2%

898

43.0% 700 33.5%

765

36.6%

Employer has none 84

4.0%

537

25.7%

96

4.6%

886

42.4%

Others

118

5.6%

136

6.5% 119

5.7%

194

9.3%

TOTAL

12089

2089

2089

2089

It was considered that the employers definitely had the

responsibility of providing sickness benefit to the employees. About half

(43.1%) of the respondents considered that it was the employers' total

responsibility while about another half (47.2%) considered that it was part

of the employers' responsibility. Similarly, retirement benefit was

considered to be the employers' responsibility. Even more employees considered

it was the employers' total responsibility. Housing and life insurance

were considered to be mainly the responsibility of the employees.

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Sharing of contributions

Question 26. Do you agree or disagree that the employer contributes for the

employees all the premium for this insurance scheme? (Prompt)

(1) Agree very much

(2) Agree

(4) Disagree (5) Disagree very much

(3) Indifferent

Findings:

64.8% (N

-

1354) of all employees agreed that the employers

should contribute all the premiums for this insurance scheme; only 26%

(N = 543) of all employees disagreed while the rest 9.2% (N = 192) were

indifferent.

The mean score on this scale of agreement

disagreement

was 2.347, which implied that employees tended to be between agreement

to indifference. (Table 0105)