Flash Eurobarometer 120 (The Working Conditions)

Working conditions.<br>Topics: current employment status; company sector; number of employees in the company (company size); number of subordinates; kind of work; kind of workplace; telework; satisfaction with: own work, own working conditions; occupation; professional position; current professional activity is main source of income; monthly income; spreading of working hours; satisfaction with current timetable; average weekly working hours; satisfaction with number of weekly working hours; length of period of working with current timetable; readiness to change job or employer to get a full time job; reasons for working part time; advantages and disadvantages of working part time; preference to work more or less hours under the precondition of the same hourly rate; employment by a temporary work agency; average length of missions; duration of current employment contract; satisfaction with duration of current employment contract; reasons for working for a limited duration; advantages and disadvantages of working for a limited duration; readiness to change job or employer to get a permanent position; preference for a contract with a shorter or with a longer duration under the same conditions of the current job; other professional activities; kind of activity: part time, fixed term; number of full time jobs of unlimited duration in the last ten years; duration of last left full time job; reason for leaving last full time job; number of part time jobs in the last ten years; duration of last left part time job; reason for leaving last part time job; number of fixed term contracts in the last ten years; total duration of working under fixed term contracts; reason for not renewing last fixed term contract; reason for current self-employment; motivation to keep this status; advantages and disadvantages of full time employment compared to self-employment; interest in an employment within a part time job or a contract limited in time; advantages and disadvantages of an employment within a part time job or a contract limited in time compared to a usual employment contract; preference to employ persons part time or for a fixed term duration rather than full time or for unlimited duration; impact of these contracts on willingness to employ more persons; option in current permanent full time job as an employee to: go over to a part time timetable, go over to a flexible timetable, obtain career breaks; advantages and disadvantages of working part time in current job; advantages and disadvantages of working with a flexible timetable; advantages and disadvantages of taking a career break in current job; preferred length of career break; interest in part time or fixed term duration job; interest of employed staff in flexible jobs in a full time contract of unlimited duration; personal experience with full time employment for unlimited duration; comparison of full time employment for unlimited duration with current flexible job; comparison of full time employment for unlimited duration with current flexible job with regard to the following aspects: flexibility, stability, personal motivation, suitability for personal life, salary; latest professional occupation of respondents who are not working currently; latest employment status; reason for finishing latest job; current training measures; interest in: part time job, fixed term job, part time and fixed term job; important factors with regard to considering part time or fixed term job; importance of each of the following factors for personal job satisfaction: income, autonomy, motivating content, changes and variety, security for the future, adaptation to personal life, working conditions and involvement, possibilities for lifelong learning; attitude towards selected statements on part time jobs: allow better life organisation, allow better work quality, relatively higher salary; personal importance of the aforementioned statements to accept a part time job; attitude towards selected statements on part time jobs: badly paid, precarious and only recommended in order to get a regular job, mainly feminine, reduce responsibilities and social relationships, lack of social image, reduce quality of work; importance of the aforementioned statements to refuse a part time job; attitude towards promoting part time employment by legislation; attitude towards encouraging workers to look for part time jobs; attitude towards selected statements on fixed term jobs: allow better life organisation, allow better work quality, better paid, give experience and increases chances on labour market, prove worker flexibility; personal importance of the aforementioned statements to accept a fixed term job; attitude towards selected statements on fixed term jobs: badly paid, precarious and only recommended in order to get a regular job, mainly feminine, reduce responsibilities and social relationships, lack of social image, reduce quality of work, prevent from organising personal life; importance of the aforementioned statements to refuse a fixed term job; attitude towards promoting limited duration employment by legislation; attitude towards encouraging workers to look for limited duration jobs; ranking of the following types of employment regarding their acceptability: full time employment of unlimited duration, part time employment, fixed term employment, employment in a temporary job agency, self-employment; personal health status; recognized percentage of disability; number of days of being unable to work for health reasons in the last six months; country of birth; years of settlement in the own country.

Demography: sex; age; region; type of community; household composition and household size; highest completed level of full time education; current type of education; age at end of education.

Additionally coded was: country; questionnaire number; weighting factor.