Social and Job Market Policy Aspects of Advancing the Flexible Age Limit to the 60th Year of Age

Attitude of older employees in North Rhine-Westphalia to advancing the
flexible age limit to the 60th year of age for men or the 58th year of
age for women. The current job situation and ideas about life in
retirement.

Topics: commuting time to work; participation in retraining and
measures for further education; change of job within the company and
reasons for this change; expected influence of age on the last change
of job; financial losses from this; judgement on job security and one´s
own occupational future; work satisfaction; characterization of job
demands; relationship with colleagues; assessment of personal condition
of health; contacts with doctors; frequency of illness and
disabilities; ideas about retirement; assumed pleasant and unpleasant
aspects of retirement; experiences of friends or relatives with the
time in retirement; assessment of the financial situation after
retirement; assessment of the desired retirement age of colleagues;
frequency of use of the flexible age limit in the company and assumed
reasons for this; personal interest in utilization of the flexible age
limit; planned further employment after reaching the age limit;
attitude to earlier retirement with corresponding reduction in pension
or increase in retirement insurance contributions; evaluation of
various recommendations on improvement in the situation of older
employees; preferred reduction in working hours; assumed attitude of
company management to advanced retirement; lay-off actions and
redundancy payments scheme in the company; monthly financial burdens.

Demography: age; sex; age of spouse; marital status; religious
denomination; school education; occupational training; occupational
position; occupation of spouse; income; composition of household;
housing situation; degree of urbanization; city size; length of
employment.

Interviewer rating: length of interview and difficulties with
interview.

Additionally encoded was: district code.

本数据集聚焦北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚州（North Rhine-Westphalia）老年雇员对将男性弹性退休年龄（flexible age limit）放宽至60周岁、女性放宽至58周岁的态度，同时涵盖其当前就业状况与退休生活构想。

调研主题包括：通勤至工作场所的时长；参与再培训与继续教育举措的情况；企业内部岗位变动及该变动的原因；年龄对最近一次岗位变动的预期影响；由此产生的经济损失；对工作保障与自身职业前景的判断；工作满意度；工作要求特征描述；与同事的关系；个人健康状况评估；就医情况；患病与残疾频次；退休生活构想；退休生活的预期利弊；亲友的退休生活经历；退休后财务状况评估；对同事期望退休年龄的评价；企业内弹性退休年龄政策的使用频次与推测成因；个人对使用弹性退休年龄政策的兴趣；达到法定退休年龄后的计划再就业情况；对提前退休（伴随养老金削减或退休保险缴费增加）的态度；对改善老年雇员就业处境的各类建议的评价；偏好的工时缩减方案；企业管理层对延迟退休的态度；企业内的裁员行动与遣散费方案；月度财务负担。

人口统计变量涵盖：年龄；性别；配偶年龄；婚姻状况；宗教教派；学校教育经历；职业培训情况；职业职位；配偶职业；收入水平；家庭构成；住房状况；城市化程度；城市规模；就业时长。

访员评价维度包括：访谈时长与访谈过程中遇到的困难。

额外编码项包含：区域代码。