Eurobarometer 44.2 (1995-1996)

Working conditions and stress at work. Topics: occupation; side jobs; company size; employment in the civil service; part-time employment or full position; area of business; span of control with supervisor status; current duration of employment in years; amounts in wages for special services such as overtime or night work; time worked each week; commuting time to work; information on type and extent of environmental pollution at work; characterization of job and information on type and extent of special services required; self-assessment of extent to which informed about risks at one´s place of work; extent of opportunities of self-determination in structuring work and working conditions; frequency of night shifts, Sunday work and Saturday work; shift work; opportunities of self-determination in structuring the work process; flextime; stress load; job security; determination of the pace of work by colleagues, customers, production norms, machine speed or the direct supervision of superior; personal freedom to decide in establishing the pace of work, the work method and the sequence of work steps; characterization of work as monotonous, complex and educational; common decisions with colleagues about job steps, production goals, chronological sequences and personnel questions; solving unanticipated problems at work and observing quality standards at work; agreement of work requirements and personal abilities; participation in further education measures; conversations about work-related problems with superiors, colleagues and workers´ representatives; conversations with superior about one´s own work performance; conversations about changes in work organization or working conditions; experience of violence and intimidation at work; discrimination experienced based on sex, age, race, nationality or handicap; equal treatment of sexes at one´s place of work; sex of superior; employer´s offering or granting maternity leave and supplementary days of vacation to care for a sick person as well as a healthy child; assessment of personal workplace as dangerous to health; number of days absent due to illness in the last year; change of job inthe last 5 years due to general jeopardy or jeopardy to health from the job; information on psychological and physical disturbances to health from work; additional difficulties at work due to chronic or permanent health problems; general work satisfaction. Demography: sex; age; nationality; marital status; age at conclusion of school education; composition of household; head of household; possession of a telephone. Also encoded was: date of interview; time of start of interview and length of interview; number of persons present during interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; city size.