Acquisition and Application of Occupational Qualifications 1998/99 (Qualification and Course of Employment)

Description of work responsibilities, working conditions,
job stress and possible changes of the situation at work.
Occupation education and further education as well as
individual mobility conduct.
Topics:
1.) Cross-section part:
occupation practiced
(classification of occupation according to the occupation codes of the Federal Bureau of the Census of 1992);
assessment of personal occupation as traditional or modern;
further employment or side jobs;
weekly working hours in primary and side job;
stating materials for work with which
one often works within the framework of the occupational activity
(the respondents selected from lists with
materials for work organized according to categories;
such categories were e.g.:
simple craft tools,
precision engineering and special tools,
power craft tools,
soldering and welding equipment,
machines,
plant equipment,
measuring devices,
diagnosis equipment,
computers,
office communication equipment and
writing equipment,
means of transport,
computer programs);
occupational position;
position at work;
subject to to mandatory social security;
type of employment (limited, unlimited, temporary work, job-creation measure);
duration of employment with current employer and
length of activity exercised in the current company;
assessment of the risk of lay-off;
economic area and area of business of the employing company;
stating the location of additional branches and branch offices of the employing company;
company size;
assessment of the economic situation of the company;
chronological organization of occupational activity
(changing shift, night shift, holiday work and overtime);
gross income and supplements;
stating how frequently certain work responsibilities are carried out
(e.g. training,
teaching, consulting, informing, trade fairs, testing, supervising, repairing,
purchasing and sales, acquisition, advertising, marketing, organizing,
producing, researching);
presence of formal entitlement to train apprentices as part of activity exercised,
as well as time spent looking after the apprentices;
gender of superior;
personal status as superior;
possibility of also exercising activity with lesser or other qualification;
place of acquisition of qualification necessary for occupational activity;
requirement of special knowledge for the activity exercised;
assessment of the necessity of deepening this knowledge through further education;
changing working locations;
participation in duties outside the office;
characterization of selected working conditions and job stress
(e.g. working on one's feet,
lifting heavy loads, working with smoke and dust,
dealing with dangerous materials, wearing protective clothing);
estimated necessity of hearing protection with noise;
having too much expected from work demands;
frequency of selected work demands
(e.g. deadline stress, precise regulations, repetitive activities, new duties);
perceived change of work stress and work requirements as well as
changes in the company in the last two years;
changes of personal job situation;
reduction in personnel;
restructuring;
outsourcing;
occurrence of health complaints during or immediately after work;
inability to work in the last 12 months;
presence and participation in company medical check-ups and
health promotion measures in the company;
work satisfaction (scale);
personal impact from mobbing;
participation in measures for further education or retraining measures
in the last 5 years;
use of further education opportunities in the last 2 years;
knowledge of foreign languages;
reasons for longer stays abroad (except vacation);
duration of employment;
number of all employers up to now;
reasons for change of employer;
assessment of change of employer regarding improvement in occupational situation;
temporary self-employment during working life;
number and time of changes of occupation that took place as well as
reasons for the change and resulting improvements of occupational situation;
moves for occupational reasons;
number and points in time of unemployment;
status besides employment;
ages of children in household;
living together with a partner;
employment of partner;
existing disabilities;
place where youth was spent;
immigration year;
citizenship;
state;
size of municipality class;
degree of technology of the workplace and primary work equipment;
highest occupation training final examination.
Additionally for the self-employed:
area of business;
branch;
number of employees subject to mandatory social security in the company;
structure of employees (trainees, family members,
temporary work force, temps, etc.);
founding year;
start of self-employment activity;
presence of cooperative relationships.
Additionally with freelancers:
basis of occupational activity
(fee, based on contract for specific task, based on hours);
number of companies for which the activity is exercised;
weekly working hours;
arrangement of working hours;
start of activity in current company and activity as freelancer in general;
assessment of the risk that the working relationship will be ended by the company.
2.) Longitudinal part:
school education:
type, year and city of school degree;
school degree completed later;
college;
doctorate;
post-doctoral qualification as university lecturer;
participation in measures preparatory for occupation,
year of primary occupational training,
occupational technical school,
obligatory practical training;
type, beginning and end of occupational training;
type of facility at which occupational training took place;
conclusion of occupational training;
reasons for non-conclusion;
area of business, locations and size of company doing the training;
financial support of instruction (student aid, scholarship);
usability of knowledge and skills gained during training in current activity;
whereabouts after training;
appropriateness of job after training;
duration of possible unemployment, odd jobs, military service or
alternative service or a voluntary social year after training.