Industry Workers in Liberia

Occupation career, job situation, work orientation as well as the
family and financial situation of mine workers in Liberia.

Topics: Illiterates among the siblings; number of wives and interest
in polygamy; marriage form; living together with wife and children;
occupational activities of wife; number of children; desired occupation
for one´s own children; number of wives and occupation of father;
financial contributions to the family; occupational activities of
siblings in the modern or traditional sector; actual and preferred
supplemental payments of the company; preference for occupational
cooperation with people of one´s own or a different ethnic group;
ethnic group affiliation of wife and mother; memberships; desired clubs
or organizations; interest in savings organization; amount of debts and
savings; degree of qualification of current occupational activity;
length of employment in current company; reasons for taking work in
current company; amount of hourly wage; reasons for city/country
preference; assumed reasons for flight from the country and migration
into the city; detailed information on number, type and length of
earlier employments; reasons for change of positions; work
satisfaction; age at taking first place of work; interest in change of
position; preferred occupation; participation in further education
courses; satisfaction with housing situation; residential status;
amount of rent; leisure activities; place of work, ethnic group
affiliation as well as place of getting to know the best friend;
comparison of personal general situation in life with that of friend
and the residents of native village; comparison of friendships in the
city with those in the native village; assumed reasons for greater or
lesser respect regarding individual workers; comparison of respect
experienced in the city with that in the native village; conduct
regarding a lazy colleague; German superiors as advisers with problems
and type of problems; type of problems with German superiors; perceived
care from superior; preferred contact with company problems and
complaints; preferred area for more expenditures; problems at work as
well as in the rest of life; preferred ethnic group.

Demography: School and vocational training; religiousness; ethnic
group affiliation; age (classified); marital status; religious
denomination; occupation; professional career; income; social origins.

Also encoded was: Department of company; language of interview; name
of interviewer; evaluation of interviewed worker by superior.