International Social Survey Programme: Work Orientations II - ISSP 1997

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration running annual surveys on topics important for the social sciences. The programme started in 1984 with four founding members - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States – and has now grown to almost 50 member countries from all over the world. As the surveys are designed for replication, they can be used for both, cross-national and cross-time comparisons. Each ISSP module focuses on a specific topic, which is repeated in regular time intervals. Please, consult the documentation for details on how the national ISSP surveys are fielded. The present study focuses on questions about work, employment and work orientations.<br>Desired distribution of time for selected activities such as
work, leisure time usw.; work orientation (scale); carrying out work in
household; importance of selected demands of a job; most important
criteria for determination of amount of salary; influence of new
technologies on job offerings and on quality of job; preference for
work in service area or industry as well as in private economy or
public sector; preference for employee status or occupational
self-employment as well as for working in a large concern or in a small
company; part-time employment; interest in full-time work; expected
difficulties in looking for a job; payment of work; description of
personal commitment to work; preference for more work and more pay or
for more leisure time; certainty of one´s own job; significance of
career opportunities and structuring of flexible working hours;
characterization of work as hard physical activity and description of
the extent of stress on the job; physical exhaustion after work;
dangerous and unhealthful job situations; personal opportunity to
influence the structuring of the work day or work processes; general
job description; benefit of skills learned during time in school or
university; judgement on the relationship between management and
employees; atmosphere at work; work satisfaction; absence in the last 6
months; search for new job in the next 12 months.

Those not employed were asked: work for more than one year and time of end of last paid
job; reasons for the end of employment; expected difficulties in the
job search; current search for work; manner of search for work; primary
income source.

Demography: sex; age; marital status; living together with a partner;
education and duration of education; current employment status;
employment in private or public sector; self-employment or employee;
personal employees; time worked each week; superior function and span
of control; company size; income; religious denomination;
religiousness; union member; self-assessment of social class;
self-assessment on a left-right continuum; party preference; size of
household and composition; city size; region; original country of
origin or ethnic group affiliation.