Analysis of Working and Living Conditions of Working Mothers and Fathers 1984

On compatibility of employment and motherhood in the work sphere, in
child care and in a partnership.
Topics: Description of one's own occupational activity and that of
partner: activity exercised, occupational qualification, school
degree, course of time of occupational training, social
classification; frequency of participation in company courses;
comparison of training occupation with activity exercised; use of
knowledge from training; reasons for lack of agreement between
activity and training occupation; characteristics of employment;
personal net income and that of partner; current and earlier
government management functions of respondent and partner; readiness
to accept a government management function and reasons for or
against; honorary social activity and time burden from this;
chronological sequence of exercised functions; participation in
training and further education and reasons for this; priority for
personal occupational development or that of partner; work of
respondent or partner in shift work; reasons for preference for
part-time work by women; personal changes from rationalization
measures; readiness for further education, positions of
responsibility, shift work, innovator activity, independent work and
higher performances as a result of increased demands from
rationalization measures; acceptance of changed working conditions as
a result of change of job; reasons for particular arrangements of
working hours for women and their consequences; differences in
professional life of men and women regarding conflicts in
occupational career, qualification, social and government functions,
income, working hours, all-round education; differences in time
expenditure of men and women for children, housework, leisure time;
decision-maker in questions of housekeeping, raising children,
organization of leisure time and with larger financial expenditures;
time expended for the route to work and means of transport used;
current division of time corresponding to concepts of life; desire
for more time for various areas of life; preferred arrangement of
working hours; views on compatibility of occupation, social activity
and raising children.
Supplemental form for women without children or with children over 16
years: number and ages of children; children living in household;
full-time or part-time employment; time worked each week;
significance of income for respondent and family.
Identical question formulation in supplemental form for mothers or
fathers: number and ages of children; children living in household;
frequency of illness of children; persons who take over care of the
children when they are sick; difficulties with compatibility of
employment with duties as father or mother in various age-levels of
children; current problems with children; doing without occupational
development for the sake of the children; time respondent and partner
spend with children on weekdays or weekend; primary person for the
children to relate to as baby, in pre-school and school age;
satisfaction with division of labor practiced in child care.
Additional questions in supplemental form for mothers: full-time or
part-time employment; time worked each week; significance of income
for respondent and family; temporary reduction in working hours or
discontinuation; conditions for compatibility of occupational work
with child-raising and care of children.
Additional questions in supplemental form for fathers: terms of
employment of wife and attitude to this; agreement of training
occupation and current activity of wife as well as reasons for
discrepancy if appropriate; readiness of wife to accept government
management functions and honorary social functions; assessment of the
consequences of shift work of wife on organization of leisure time,
occupational development, child care, condition of health, financial
situation, housework; conditions for positive attitude to shift work;
significance of income of wife; reasons for care of children by the
woman in case of illness.