Flash Eurobarometer 163 (0 employee = One-person-enterprises)

Attitudes of one-person company owners towards hiring staff.<br>Topics: frequency of the following activities: employ staff on short term basis, receive help from friends or family, subcontract or buy services from others; recruitment of staff under regular work contract; expected necessity to recruit staff under regular work contract in the next six months; reasons for not employing staff under regular contract; most important obstacles for employing staff under regular contract with regard to legal and administrative procedures; estimated number of institutions to deal with before employing staff; estimated time needed to fulfil administrative procedures; expected time needed for administrative process in total; most important sources of information on administrative processes and duties; estimated time needed per month and employee for administrative processes; awareness of selected simplified legal and administrative requirements and initiatives for small companies: special rules regarding the administrative process of hiring employees, relaxed employment rules, exceptions from rules regarding dismissal of employees, tax reductions and special reductions for social security contributions, special financial support with regard to hiring employees; estimated non-wage labour costs.

Demography: information about the company: number of employees in the own country, company sector; beginning of business activity; sex; age; age at end of education; turnover of the company in the own country in the last fiscal year.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; SIC-Code; language of the interview; weighting factor.

本数据集聚焦单人企业主的员工雇佣态度，涵盖以下调研主题：短期雇佣员工、获取亲友协助、外包业务或外购服务等活动的发生频次；签订正式劳动合同的员工招聘情况；未来六个月内签订正式劳动合同雇佣员工的预期必要性；未签订正式劳动合同雇佣员工的原因；签订正式劳动合同雇佣员工时，在法律与行政流程方面面临的首要障碍；雇佣员工前需对接的机构预估数量；完成行政流程所需的预估时长；行政流程总耗时的预期值；行政流程与相关职责信息的首要获取渠道；每名员工每月需投入在行政流程上的预估时长；对小微企业简化法律与行政相关要求及扶持举措的认知情况，具体包括雇佣员工行政流程专项规则、宽松雇佣规则、员工解雇规则例外条款、税收减免及社保缴费专项减免、雇佣员工相关专项财政支持；以及预估的非工资劳动成本（non-wage labour costs）。

人口统计与企业信息维度包含以下内容：企业在本国的员工数量、所属行业板块、经营活动启动时间；受访者的性别、年龄、受教育结束年龄；上一财年企业在本国的营业额。

额外编码字段包括：受访者ID、所在国家、标准产业分类代码（SIC-Code）、访谈语言、权重因子（weighting factor）。