Acquisition and Application of Occupational Qualifications 1991/92 (Qualification and Course of Employment)

Qualification, description of activity and career course.

Topics:1. Current or last employment: average time worked each week;
occupational activity; economic area; area of business; company size;
occupational position; since when self-employed; judgement on the
economic situation of the company; limited or unlimited terms of
employment; ABM position {job creation measure}; ABM activity as
continuation of previous work; duration of company employment; fear of
lay-off; perceived difficulties to find a new position.

2. Special qualification characteristics: characterization of
activities conducted at work; most important activity at work; activity
as full-time trainer; personally training apprentices; proportion of
working hours for training others; formal entitlement to train;
superior activity; assessment whether one´s own activity could as well
be performed by a man or a woman or by less skilled; school or company
further education as most important sources of knowledge for the
current activity; characterization of special areas of knowledge for
the current activity; areas of knowledge in which knowledge through
further education would be necessary.

3. Materials for work: detailed determination of the materials for
work used by the respondent in the activity, thus e.g. means of
transport, vehicles, tools, machines, hand-controlled or automatic
machines, production facilities, office equipment, computers, precision
engineering as well as optical equipment, instruments for medical and
chemical processes; identification of the most important materials for
work; work with program-controlled materials for work.

4. Working conditions and satisfaction: stressful working conditions;
most important social and psychological job demands; general work
satisfaction; satisfaction with the individual factors of the job such
as income, prospect of promotion, atmosphere at work, surroundings, job
stress and further education possibilities.

5. Unemployment: unemployment in the last two years; entire duration
of unemployment.

6. School and vocational training: school degree; year of school
degree; conclusion of apprenticeship or partial training as skilled
worker; apprenticeship discontinued; training occupation; type of
acquisition of conclusion of apprenticeship; length of apprenticeship;
use of knowledge from the apprenticeship in the current activity; area
of business of the company doing the training; size of the company
doing the training; remaining with company doing the training after
conclusion of apprenticeship; job appropriate to training; length of
remaining in company after conclusion of apprenticeship; description of
the transfer and the situation between apprenticeship and lasting job;
master or technician examination; school degrees and year of last
degree; subject area and job title.

7. Course of employment: year of first regular employment; number of
employers up to now; interruption of employment for more than six
months; duration and reason for interruption of employment;
participation in special qualification measures and further education
courses before return to occupation.

8. Occupational further education: participation in courses and
seminars in the last 5 years as well as currently; type and area of the
course (distance education, outside work or within the company);
acquisition of a certificate for the course; full-time or part-time
course; duration of course; most important purposes of the course; use
of other further education opportunities; information on knowledge of
foreign languages; longer stay abroad.

9. Occupational mobility: change of occupation; change of company;
becoming self-employed or remaining with the same employer after a
change of occupation; motives for change of occupation; qualitative
improvement in occupational situation through change of occupation;
moves in the course of professional life.

10. Demography: size of household; living together with a partner;
children in household and their ages; year of birth of respondent;
country in which childhood was spent; German citizenship. The following
questions were posed in the eastern part of the country: currently
looking for work; search for work in the previous occupation;
assessment of the occupational future; employment status; retraining
occupation; desired occupation or compromise solution; retraining in
the company or in a training facility; participation exclusively in
further education or participation in normal work of the company;
impact of short time work; short time work zero; date of leaving the
last position; type of last position; having a firm position before
start of unemployment; date of leaving this position.