I don't have statistics with me. I would say that, depending on the study you are looking at, these are definitions that can vary, that depend on the study. This is quite a complex question to answer. Sometimes as well, the information will come from administrative data that's collected around programs. Some of them are provincial programs. I could not risk giving a number, because there may be many numbers out there.
What I can tell you, though, is that the working life expectancy for a worker is on the increase. For example, in the early 1990s a worker at age 50 was expecting to work 12.5 years. In 2008 in our survey, we asked the same question: how long do you expect to remain in the labour force? Workers then at age 50 were expecting to stay 16 years. This had increased, between the early 1990s and 2008, by 3.5 years.
When we put that fact together with the fact that health is the most important reason someone would decide whether to retire or not, they give us an indication that the trend is going in the right direction. Workers are healthier and they want to continue contributing, and therefore we see that they are staying longer. They expect to stay much longer in the labour market than was the case two decades ago.