People in System-relevant Professions (June 2021)

The survey conducted by the opinion research institute Kantar on behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government focuses on people working in system-relevant professions during the Corona pandemic. The focus is on working conditions, the importance of work, the influence of the Corona pandemic on their own occupation, attitudes towards government support and expectations for the future.<br>Personal situation and working conditions: life satisfaction; satisfaction with certain aspects of life (working conditions, education and qualification, health situation, professional remuneration, family situation and financial situation); dissatisfaction with certain working conditions (e.g. place of work, working hours, compatibility of family and work, overtime, etc.); assessment of personal working conditions (working time, time pressure, structure, effort, influence of Corona on working conditions, recognition by the pandemic, worsening of working conditions during the pandemic); assessment of work-life balance; shift work; working hours: Frequency per week of work before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m.; frequency of weekend work per month; frequency of overtime and its compensation; temporary employment;

Importance of work: importance of work; change in importance of work by Corona; recognition for work from the following groups of people: from the company/employer, from colleagues, from other people in the professional environment, from the personal private environment, from society in general and from politics; identification with one´s own work;

Impact of Corona: impact of the pandemic on working hours; impact of the pandemic on personal income (financial losses); feeling safe from infection at work; reasons for fear of infection at work; vaccination status or willingness to be vaccinated; stress in the work environment during the pandemic (health care sector, child care/ education sector); occupational responsibility for monitoring compliance with Corona measures; stress at work in monitoring Corona measures and in monitoring compliance with hygiene measures in the health care sector, education sector and trade; support from the employer; consideration of a change of employer/ job during the pandemic;

Government support: satisfaction with the federal government´s Corona crisis management; assessment of government support during the pandemic; attitude towards the government´s responsibility for working conditions and remuneration; awareness of current measures and support offers of the federal government for one´s own occupational group; assessment of these measures and support offers of the federal government; use of these support offers; assessment of government support for people in system-relevant professions; mention of additional helpful measures for system-relevant professions during the Corona crisis (open);

Future: future expectations of own occupational field; wishes for change in own occupational field after the pandemic (open); most important conditions for the future viability of the health sector.

Demography: employment; system relevance; age; sex; federal state; education (general school leaving certificate/ university or technical college degree); self-positioning social class; household income; occupation; duration of occupation; size of business; size of household; number of children under 18 in household; size of locality; party sympathies; migration background.

Additionally coded: sequence number; head groups formal education (low, medium, high); weighting factor.