Female Physiotherapists

Pre-professional and professional career, conflicts at work and further
education activities of female physiotherapists.

Topics: School-leaving date; graduation; profession desired before the
start of studies; reasons for taking up studies and most important
criteria for the choice of profession; date of start of studies at the
school of physiotherapy; evaluation of training; type of professional
activities after graduation; hours of work; activities abroad; work
carried out in salaried employment or free-lance, as well as advantages
of each; number of employees; vacation time; participation in further
education courses and attitude to professional further education;
reading of technical journals; job satisfaction (scale); estimation of
the professional prestige of physiotherapists; qualification profile of
this profession; number and type of individual or group treatments;
conflicts with related occupational groups; estimated proportion of
psychological causes for illness; success ratio of physiotherapy
treatments; relations with patients; expected income; reference groups
in the profession; tasks of a professional organization for
physiotherapists; present and former membership as well as type of
membership in professional organization.

Also encoded were: whether the respondent waived anonymity on return
of the questionnaire as well as date of return.

Demography: age (classified); marital status; number of children; age
and number of siblings; religious denomination; school education;
employment; income; social origins; regional origins.