Digitalization: Working 4.0

Attitudes and opinions of working Germans to working 4.0

Topics: information about own paid employment (type of employment, sector, etc.), information on professional internet use; attitudes towards digitalization in general and at work; Germany uses the opportunities of the digital change sufficiently versus needs additional requirements; assessment of skills and qualifications for the future world of work; satisfaction with the current job; importance of various characteristics of work; these characteristics apply to the own work; attitudes towards the relationship between work and private life; extent of the changes at the workplace by digitization; more advantages or disadvantages of these changes; Sequelae of changes due to the increasing change of computers and the Internet; own employer is digitally up-to-date versus has to catch up; expected impact of the increasing digitization on the number of jobs in general, and for the low-skilled and for higher qualified; own work could be replaced due to digitization; opinion on flexible working; expected increase or decrease in the proportion of temporary employment or agency workers by digitization; general demand for new political framework in the process of digitalization; need for reform concerning work (for example, restrictions on fixed-term contracts, etc.); perception of the positive development on the labor market;
good preparation of schools for the new labor market requirements; suggestions for schools with regard to the requirements of digitization; impact of changes in the labor market on the reconciliation of work and private life.

Demography: sex; age; highest educational level; employment status; occupational position; household size; number of persons in the household aged 18 and over; number of school-age children in the household; marital status; household income; city size (BIK and political); self-rated social position; internet access at home.

Also encoded was: ID; weighting factor.