Social Problems of Retirement and Adjustment to Retirement

Social problems of workers due to their retirement.

Topics: point in time of retirement; age of spouse; living together
with others; size of household; residential status; neighborhood
contacts; number of children; number of married children; number of
grandchild and siblings; distance to siblings, children and close
persons; point in time and frequency of contacts with relatives and
acquaintances; information on getting to know friends and
acquaintances; information on personal education or education of
spouse; employment in the civil service; personal professional position
or professional position of spouse; change of occupation; change of
company; reasons for change of occupation or company; participation in
further education or retraining courses; original occupational goal;
significance of professional career; company size; job satisfaction and
satisfaction with company (scales); characterization of occupational
activity; work orientation; judgement on physical and psychological
burdens at work; possibility to influence the pace at work; monotonous
work; time worked each week; overtime; night work or changing shifts;
short time work; type of pay; position in company hierarchy; particular
working conditions for older workers in the company; perceived changes
at work regarding work stress, the pace at work, type of activity and
possibilities for decision-making in the last few years; adequate time
for family; occupation with the family; assumed effects of retirement
on family life; relationship with children; ideal relationship of
children with their parents (scale); desired contact and assumed
increase in need of help from children after retirement; expected
development of family relations due to retirement; family orientation;
decision structure within the family and relationship between husband
and wife (scale); division of activities within the family and assumed
change due to retirement; information on time budget of a normal
workday; weekly time expended for secondary occupations and planned
increased effort for secondary occupation or a planned secondary
occupation after retirement; characterization of one´s own leisure
situation (scale); leisure activities conducted and assumed change of
leisure activities after retirement; desire for more leisure contacts
after retirement; preferred leisure partner; most important activity in
life besides employment; time expended, pay or regularity of such an
activity; reasons for exercising such an activity (scale);
comparability of activity with occupation; planned increased effort for
this activity after retirement; contentment with life (scale); future
plans; conversations with other persons about one´s own future;
attitude to retirement (scale); number of times reported sick in the
last few years; currently under medical treatment and regular use of
medication; medical prescription of medication; chronic illnesses; time
of initial occurrence of such an illness; characterization of current
condition of health; significance of health problems as topic of
conversation; occupation with health questions; participation in
medical check-ups; frequency of fitness measures; self-characterization
and characterization of a retiree (semantic differential); attitude to
activity of older people or non-commitment (scale); amount of pension;
attitude to preparation of older workers for retirement as well as
preferred institutions for such preparation measures; psychological
self-characterization (scales).

Demography: sex; marital status; age; number of siblings; Interviewer
rating: judgement on interview situation by interviewer; presence of
other persons during interview; receptiveness of respondent; length of
interview; date of interview; place of interview; employment in the
civil service.

Also encoded was: judgement on interview situation by interviewer;
presence of other persons during the interview; receptiveness of
respondent; length of interview.