Retraining the Workforce (Branches of the Economy and Regions with Particular Structure Problems)

Problems of retraining the workforce in branches of the economy and
regions with particular structure problems.

Retrainees as well as a comparison group were interviewed on their
occupational situation and further development.

Topics: Course of training; participation in further education events
after school; reasons for choice of occupation; satisfaction with
choice of occupation; work satisfaction and company satisfaction;
assessment of the economic situation in the region as well as of the
company; assessment of job security and the general problem of
unemployment; personal measures to protect against unemployment;
conduct at loss of job; job mobility; extent to which informed about
the job promotion law; attitude to retraining and expected
difficulties; attitude to further education as an adult; assessment of
personal abilities to learn a new occupation; expectations of a new
occupation; attitude to society and judgement on equal opportunities in
the occupation; assessment of equal rights for men and women;
disadvantaged or privileged groups in the FRG; judgement on economic
development in the next few years and the situation of the worker in
society; assessment of the political significance of retraining.

The following additional questions were posed to retrainees: decision
and reasons leading to retraining; assessment of the learning
situation; achievement supervision and achievement expectations during
retraining; experiences with the employment office; financial situation
during retraining; perceived occupation prospects after retraining;
selection criteria for the new job; attitude to co-determination in
training; change of family life from retraining.

With self-employed and farmers: significance of self-employment.

Demography: marital status; number of children; religious
denomination; school education; vocational training; income; party
membership; social origins; city size; membership in a trade union.

Interviewer rating: length of interview.

Also encoded was: identification of interviewer; identification of
encoder.