Eurobarometer 44.2 (Nov 1995- Jan 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 in
the 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.