Long-Time Unemployed in the District Neubrandenburg, 1st Wave 1994

The individual situation in life, attitudes and behaviors of
long-time unemployed in a region lacking in infrastructure.
Topics: Length of unemployment; earlier activity; agreement of
occupation learned and activity exercised; last employer; reasons for
one's own unemployment; earlier times of unemployment; future
concerns; life planning; activities exercised on a weekday and their
duration; changes of financial situation; importance of work;
personal change from unemployment; chances on the job market; job
corresponding to qualification; personal prerequisites for search for
work; willingness to compromise regarding the conditions of a new
job; maximum route to work; number and addressee of applications up
to now; number of current applications; expected future occupation
situation; sources of information for job offers; factors of
significance in the search for work; participation in further
education and retraining and reasons for non-participation; readiness
to participate in a qualification measure and reasons for this;
participation in job creation measures (ABM) since 1990; frequency of
reporting with the employment office; official handling one's case at
the employment office; judgement on the achievements of the
employment office; number of positions offered; reasons for
rejection; size of circle of friends and change since unemployment;
places of meeting with friends and topics of conversation; change of
family life; further members of household impacted by unemployment,
retraining, further education or ABM; preferred party for solving the
economic problems; trust in institutions; effects of a possible Lotto
prize on search for work; stand on illicit work of unemployed; form
of property of residence; composition of household income; personal
income before unemployment; financial opportunities to satisfy needs;
Sunday question.