International Social Survey Programme: Work Orientations I-IV Cumulation

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences. The programme started in 1984 with four founding members - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States – and has now grown to almost 50 member countries from all over the world. As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both, cross-national and cross-time comparisons. Each ISSP module focuses on a specific topic, which is repeated in regular time intervals. Please, consult the documentation for details on how the national ISSP surveys are fielded. The present study focuses on questions about the environment, climate change and environmental protection.<br>Preferred time budget for selected activities such as work, leisure time, household work, time with family and time with friends; Work centrality (a job is just a way of earning money vs. would enjoy having a paid job even if the money is not needed); work most important activity; carrying out work in household; judgement on the necessity of trade unions; importance of selected demands of a job (job security, high income, opportunities of advancement, interesting job, independent work, helping people, useful for society, decide times or days of work); preference for employee status or occupational self-employment as well as for working in a large concern or in a small company; preference for work in service area or industry as well as in private economy or public sector; employability/ new job: expected difficulties in finding a new job at least as good as the current one; how hard respondent works at job; preference for more work and more pay or for more leisure time; characteristics of own job (job security, high income, opportunities of advancement, interesting job, independent work, helping people, useful for society); physical exhaustion after work; characterization of work as hard physical activity and description of the extent of stress on the job; dangerous and unhealthful job situations; demands of the job interfere with the family life and the demands of family life interfere with the job; judgement on the relations between management and employees and the relations between workmates/ colleagues (working atmosphere); outcome of work: work satisfaction in the main job; second job; preferred employment arrangements (full-time, part-time, less than 10 hours a week, no paid job at all); currently working for pay (employment status); job and working flexibility: job and working flexibility concerning starting and finishing times; organization of daily work (free decision, decision within certain limits, no free decision); work life balance: difficult to take an hour off during working hours to take care of personal or family matters; human capital: usefulness of the abilities learned from past work experience for the present job; job training over the past twelve months to improve job skills; identification with firm or organization; occupational commitment (willingness to work harder for the company’s success, would change the present type of work for something different, proud of the present type of work); likeliness of job search in the next twelve months; worried about the possibility of losing own job; job and working flexibility: accepted concessions to avoid unemployment (acceptance of a job that requires new skills, acceptance of a lower paid position, acceptance of temporary employment, longer travel to reach the place of work).

Respondents who are not currently employed were asked: ever worked for pay for one year or more; year the last paid job ended; main reason for the end of last employment; interest in finding a paid job; expected difficulties in finding a new job; currently looking for a job; job seeking activities in the past twelve months (registered at a public or private agency, answered job advertisement, advertised on the internet or in newspaper, applied directly to employees, asked relatives and friends); main source of economic support; training to improve own job skills in the past twelve months.

Demography: sex; age; marital status; steady life partner; education: years of schooling; highest education level; currently, formerly, or never in paid work (respondent and partner); current employment status (respondent and partner); hours worked weekly (respondent and partner); occupation (ISCO 2008) (respondent and partner); supervising function at work (respondent and partner); number of other employees supervised; type of organization: for-profit vs. non-profit; trade union membership; household size; child in household; party affiliation (left-right); participation in last election; attendance of religious services; religious main groups (derived); Top Bottom self-placement; subjective social class; place of living urban – rural; household income groups (derived).

Additionally coded: ID number of respondent; unique cumulation respondent ID number; ISSP Module year; country; country sample; country sample year; weighting factor; administrative mode of data collection.