Project 2: Numeracy and ICT Skills: Workforce and Healthcare Analysis

This project, titled "Numeracy and ICT Skills in Research," examines the implications of an aging population in England and Wales on the workforce and healthcare services. The study employs ICT skills, including the use of Excel for data analysis, to investigate the impacts of an increasing number of older people. Research questions address the potential effects on the workforce, the implications for healthcare services, and strategies to mitigate these impacts. The methodology involves data analysis of population statistics from 2002 to 2014, calculating mean, median, mode, and standard deviations. Findings reveal increasing demands on healthcare and a shrinking workforce. Recommendations include recruiting experienced older workers, establishing new healthcare centers, and encouraging engagement in healthcare services to address these challenges. The analysis provides a detailed examination of the demographic shifts and their socio-economic consequences, offering strategic insights for policy makers and organizations.

Numeracy and ICT
Skills in Research

Table of Contents
PROJECT 2......................................................................................................................................3
Aim..............................................................................................................................................3
Background and introduction.......................................................................................................3
Research questions.......................................................................................................................3
Literature review..........................................................................................................................3
Research methodology.................................................................................................................4
Data analysis................................................................................................................................5
Findings and recommendations...................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

PROJECT 2
Aim
“To analysis all the implications that are left by growing age on workforce and health
care services.”
Background and introduction
This report based on the England and Wales living middle age group people where they
have to face two common problems such as healthcare services and decreases the workforce.
Population of both countries increases which affect the stability of the country and become
difficult for the people who live there (Koepp, Snedden and Levine, 2015). In order to identify
the problem with detailed analysis, ICT skills used which helps in collecting information and
make researcher able to find appropriate solution for it.
Research questions
 What are the potential impacts of increment in growing age upon workforce in England
and Wales?
 What are the implications of continuous incline in growing age on health care services?
 Which strategies could be adopted to reduce impacts of growing age on different areas?
Literature review
When researcher conduct a critical analysis of different types of published sources for the
purpose of finding answers for research questions then it is known as literature review. With the
help of it readers can relate to the topic and improve their knowledge. In other words it can be
defined as mode of analysis which is highly focused with summary, comparison, evaluation and
classification of all the facts covered in a research.
Potential impacts of increment in growing age upon workforce
According to ABC, number of older people is continuously increasing in England and
Wales due to which organisations are facing the problem of lack of staff members and it is
leaving negative impacts upon their productivity (Lupu and et. al., 2018). It is one of the biggest
negative implication of growing age because as people get old their body becomes incapable to
work in an organisation. It is one of the main problem which is affecting the functionality of
business. It is very important for the management of organisations to deal with this problem in
systematic manner.

Implications of continuous incline in growing age on health care services
According to ABC the demand of health care services in England and Wales is increasing
continuously due to growing age. When people get old then it affects their health therefore it is
very important for them to get health care services so that they can live a healthy life. People in
England and Wales are living more as compared to other countries which is resulting in
increased demand of care services in both the nations. The governmental parties of these regions
are required to take appropriate actions so that they can respond to the issues appropriately.
Strategies which could be adopted to reduce impacts of growing age on different
areas
According to ABC, growing age is the issue which is resulting in increased demand of
health care services and decreased workforce for the organisations. It is vital to deal with both
the implications of it. For the purpose of responding them appropriately different steps could be
taken by legal authorities. These are promoting the courses which are related to health care
services so that youngsters can choose them and help older people to deal with all their medical
issues. Another steps which could be taken by government is opening new care homes which are
delivering services to the house of old individuals and also have facilities for them to stay there
and get treated appropriately (Stevens, 2017). By adopting all these strategies all the impacts of
growing age could be reduced in England and Wales.
Research methodology
It is the techniques of research which is used to collect information, analyse and evaluate
the entire data. Research methodology include the process of gathering specific information as
per the requirement. This assessment research based on the increase of health care services for
old age people. Methodologies are used such as ICT skills, ICT software and awareness of
information security and privacy.
ICT skills are concerned with understanding and applying the variety of computer
programmes which are concerned with software and other applications. These skills include use
of computer, tablets, mobile phones, email and internet as all of these are connected with internet
and technology. According to me, it is relevant to have practical knowledge of these skills.
ICT (Information communication and technology) software help the organizations to
manage or soft the huge number of information. This report use the Excel software for this and
collect information from the website of national statistics 2015. ICT software helps in calculating

percentage, mean, mode, ratio, standards deviation or median. All the below mention calculation
based on growing age people of England or Wales. At the time of conducting this research,
researcher aware about the security and privacy of information.
Data analysis
It is a process which helps in inspecting and transforming the data by analysing or
discovering the relevant information which support the decision of researcher. Data analysis has
various approaches and plays an important role in decision making about the success and
development of career.
Collected data based on growing age people who live in Wales and England city, both
cities face the issues of low workforce and high demand of health care services. Further analysis
will be done with the help of following tables:
Number of growing age people from 2002 to 2014:
Years
People from age 90 to
94
People from age 95 to
99
People from age 100
to above
2002 281340 62280 7090
2003 287840 64790 7410
2004 293790 67080 7760
2005 298910 69550 8150
2006 298280 71810 8580
2007 295020 74990 9210
2008 282580 76550 9490
2009 291500 81010 10160
2010 315810 84010 10720
2011 344070 85030 11210
2012 369390 84330 11810
2013 384390 81500 12320
2014 401050 84900 13280
Above mention table represent that people from the age of 90 to 105 in England &
Wales. It has been observed that old age people population continues increases which generate
the problem of high demand of healthcare and low workforce in the economy.

Number of males over 90 from 2002 to 2014:
Years Male from age 90 to 94 Male from age 95 to 99
Male from age 100 to
above
2002 69500 10,840 780
2003 72470 11,590 810
2004 75630 12,430 880
2005 78440 13,140 1,000
2006 79180 13,870 1,110
2007 79430 14,870 1,200
2008 77090 15,400 1,220
2009 82590 16,900 1,350
2010 90720 17,660 1,460
2011 99010 17,860 1,540
2012 108620 18,130 1,690
2013 115070 17,930 1,810
2014 122170 19,330 2,040
Number of females over 90 from 2002 to 2014:
Years
Female from age 90
to 94
Female from age 95
to 99
Female from age 100
to above
2,002 2,11,830 51,430 6,320
2,003 2,15,370 53,220 6,590
2,004 2,18,160 54,650 6,880
2,005 2,20,460 56,400 7,160
2,006 2,19,100 57,950 7,470
2,007 2,15,580 60,120 8,010
2,008 2,05,530 61,160 8,300
2,009 2,08,930 64,110 8,800
2,010 2,25,100 66,340 9,260

2,011 2,45,070 67,170 9,670
2,012 2,60,760 66,200 10,110
2,013 2,69,330 63,570 10,530
2,014 2,78,880 65,590 11,250
Above mention both table represent that number of females are more than males from the
period of 2002 to 2014. Females populations increases rapidly in comparison to males
population.
Ratio and percentage for males:
Years Male from age 90 to 94 Male from age 95 to 99
Male from age 100 to
above
Ratio Percentage Ratio Percentage Ratio Percentage
2002 0.247 24.70% 0.174 17.40% 0.110 11.00%
2003 0.252 25.20% 0.179 17.90% 0.109 10.90%
2004 0.257 25.70% 0.185 18.50% 0.113 11.30%
2005 0.262 26.20% 0.189 18.90% 0.123 12.30%
2006 0.265 26.50% 0.193 19.30% 0.129 12.90%
2007 0.269 26.90% 0.198 19.80% 0.130 13.00%
2008 0.273 27.30% 0.201 20.10% 0.129 12.90%
2009 0.283 28.30% 0.209 20.90% 0.133 13.30%
2010 0.287 28.70% 0.210 21.00% 0.136 13.60%
2011 0.288 28.80% 0.210 21.00% 0.137 13.70%
2012 0.294 29.40% 0.215 21.50% 0.143 14.30%
2013 0.299 29.90% 0.220 22.00% 0.147 14.70%
2014 0.305 30.50% 0.228 22.80% 0.154 15.40%
Ratio and percentage for Females:
Years Female from age 90 to 94 Female from age 95 to 99
Female from age 100 to
above
Ratio Percentage Ratio Percentage Ratio Percentage
2002 0.753 75.30% 0.826 82.60% 0.891 89.10%
2003 0.748 74.80% 0.821 82.10% 0.889 88.90%

2004 0.743 74.30% 0.815 81.50% 0.887 88.70%
2005 0.738 73.80% 0.811 81.10% 0.879 87.90%
2006 0.735 73.50% 0.807 80.70% 0.871 87.10%
2007 0.731 73.10% 0.802 80.20% 0.870 87.00%
2008 0.727 72.70% 0.799 79.90% 0.875 87.50%
2009 0.717 71.70% 0.791 79.10% 0.866 86.60%
2010 0.713 71.30% 0.790 79.00% 0.864 86.40%
2011 0.712 71.20% 0.790 79.00% 0.863 86.30%
2012 0.706 70.60% 0.785 78.50% 0.856 85.60%
2013 0.701 70.10% 0.780 78.00% 0.855 85.50%
2014 0.695 69.50% 0.773 77.30% 0.847 84.70%
From the above mention two tables, it has been observed that males over 90 has higher
ratio percentage in comparison to other age group people. Similarly, females who are more than
100 have more ratio and percentage in comparison to 90 or 95 above.
Findings and recommendations
Below mention table represent the mean, median, mode or standard deviation of the
total population of England and Wales. Its findings are mentioned in the tabular as well as
in graphical form.
People from age 90 to
94
People from age 95 to
99
People from age 100
to above
Mean 318766.923 75986.923 9783.846
Mode 281340 62280 7090
Median 341195 73590 10185
Standard deviations 59855 11310 3095

People from age 90 to 94
People from age 95 to 99
People from age 100 to above
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
400000
318766.923
75986.923
9783.846
281340
62280
7090
341195
73590
10185
59855
11310 3095
Mean
Mode
Median
Standard
deviation
s
From the above mention graph, it is observed that people from age group of 90 to 94 has
highest mean and similar they has highes6t median from the entire population.
Mean, median, mode, standards deviation of the male population of England & Wales:
Particulars
Male from age 90 to
94
Male from age 95 to
99
Male from age 100 to
above
Mean 88455.385 15380.769 1299.231
Mode 69500 10840 780
Median 95835 15085 1410
Standard deviations 26335 4245 630

Male from age 90 to 94 Male from age 95 to 99 Male from age 100 to above
0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
88455.385
15380.769
1299.231
69500
10840
780
95835
15085
1410
26335
4245 630
Mean
Mode
Median
Standard
deviations
Above graph shows that age group of 90 to 94 of males have high mean, median,
mode or standards deviation. There is a huge different between the different age group
people.
Female from age 90 to
94
Female from age 95 to
99
Female from age 100
to above
Mean 230315.385 60608.462 8488.462
Mode 211830 51430 6320
Median 245355 58510 8785
Standard deviations 33525 7080 2465

Female from age 90 to 94
Female from age 95 to 99
Female from age 100 to above
0 100000 200000 300000
230315.385
60608.462
8488.462
211830
51430
6320
245355
58510
8785
33525
7080
2465
Standard
deviations
Median
Mode
Mean
Above graph shows that females who are from 90 to 94 age group having highest mean,
mode, standard deviation or median. These are the females population of England or Wales city.
From the overall observation of the England or Wales population, it has been
recommended following steps to concern about the the issues which they face currently.
 Organisation can recruit old age people who having enough experience to perform and it
is beneficial for corporate sector to deal with the issues of low workforce.
 Legal authorised body of Wales & England need to start new health care centres for old
age population (Williams and et. al., 2014).
 These countries government should encourage people to explore in the heath care
services and become a pert of it.
CONCLUSION
From the above research, it has been concluded that population of old age people
continues increases which generate two issues such as lower labour force or high demand of
healthy care services in England or Wales. So legal organizations of the country need to take big
steps and promote health care sector which helps in gathering people to entered in this field or
contributed to minimise the demand. In addition, due to high population of old people there is
lack of workforce which affect the organizations and their operations as well.

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