Qualification and Course of Employment (1979)

Determination of qualification and course of professional career. The
investigation is divided into the following sections:

1. Education and training

2. Further education and retraining

3. Career course

4. Current employment

5. Mobility

Topics: 1. Education and training: school education; school
achievements; degree level and year of degree; subject area with year
of conclusion of vocational training; start and conclusion of company
vocational training; training occupation; judgement on relevance in
practice for employment today of knowledge acquired in school education
and in apprenticeship; company size, economic area and branch of
economy of company doing training; remaining with or leaving company
doing training and reasons for departure.

2. Further education and retraining: participation in courses for
occupational further education and retraining within or outside the
company within the last five years; type of courses; usability of the
knowledge acquired there for current occupational activity; course
length.

3. Career course:

a) on first employment: employment in training
occupation; type of first employment; economic area, branch of economy,
company size and status in profession.

b) for the points in time 1970 as well as 1974 (later more accurately
for the survey year 1979) information on occupation at that time was
obtained: type of occupation; area of business affiliation of company;
company size and length of company employment.

c) in case of unemployment since 1974 the following was asked:
frequency and length of unemployment.

4. Current employment: again the following was surveyed: branch of
economy and economic area as well as company size and exercised
occupation; work areas, detailed determination of the requirements at
work and of job-specific knowledge; characteristics of occupation;
materials used for work; detailed information on physical position and
efforts at work; place of acquiring qualification for current
occupation; usability of acquired training and further education;
occupational satisfaction; (scale).

5. Mobility: information on change of occupation and career changes
associated with this; reasons for change of occupation; connection of
training, further education and change of occupation; number of
employers with whom one was employed; length of employment with current
employer; satisfaction with course of professional life up to now;
degree of possible reduction in earning capacity; city size; ZIP
(postal) code.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of
children (classified); income; social origins; city size; state.