Industry Work and Culture Change in Nigeria

Occupation career, job situation, work orientation as well as the
family and financial situation of industry workers in Nigeria.

Topics: Actual and desired number of wives; reasons for monogamy;
marriage form; number of children; desired school education and
occupations for one´s own children; living together with wife and
children; reasons for being separated; frequency of visits by the wife;
occupational activities of wife; detailed information on number, type
and length of earlier employments; reasons for change of position;
activities in times of unemployment; age at taking first position;
interest in change of position; preferred occupation; work
satisfaction; mode of pay; reasons for preference for monthly wage
payment; base earning and overtime earning; amount of debts and
savings; form of savings; motives for saving; creditors and reasons for
debts; mode of repayment; work motivation; frequency of illness;
number, length and reasons for visits home; reasons for migration into
the city and interest in remigration to the country; reasons for
city/country preference; financial contributions to the family; number
of wives and occupation of father; number of siblings; number of
siblings living in the city; school education and occupation of
siblings; those guilty or reasons for unemployment in Nigeria; possible
measures against unemployment; interest in living together with
parents; additional activities in the evening; leisure activities and
leisure partner; occupation, place of work, ethnic group affiliation as
well as place of getting to know the best friend; listening to the
radio and reading newspapers; participation in further education
courses; distance and commuting times to workplace; means of transport
used on the way to workplace; type of building and residential status;
co-residents; satisfaction with housing situation; amount of rent;
furniture possession and residential furnishings; problems at work as
well as in the rest of life; contentment with life; reasons for poor
standard of living; necessary minimum income for a good life; judgement
on the occupational activity in comparison to training; perceived
recognition at work; preference for occupational cooperation with
people of one´s own or a different ethnic group; detailed information
on monthly income and monthly expenditures (budget analysis); larger
acquisitions in the last year and preferred area for more expenditures;
ethnic group affiliation; preferred ethnic group.

Demography: number of children; participation in further education
courses; party membership; regional origins; religiousness; age
(classified); marital status; religious denomination; income; social
origins; place of birth.

Also encoded was: language of interview; name and location of the
company in which the interview took place.