International Social Survey Programme: Work Orientations III - ISSP 2005

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>Preferred time budget for selected activities such as work,
leisure time etc.; work orientation; importance of selected demands of
a job (scale); preference for being self-employed or being an employee
and working in a small or in a large firm and working in private
business or civil service; advantages of the employee status (greater
job security and lower impairment of the family life); importance of
unions for job security and working conditions of employee; preference
for full-time employment or part-time employment; preference for more
work (and money) or for reduction in working hours; characterization of
the respondent´s work and work satisfaction (scale); physical
exhaustion after work; frequency of dangerous and unhealthy job
situations; possibility of flexible organisation of respondent´s
working time; personal opportunity to influence the organization of the
workday or work process; difficulties in handling personal matters
during working hours; frequency of the impairment of the family life by
the work requirements and vice versa; usefulness of the abilities
learned from past work experience for the present job; helpfulness of
the present work experiences for looking for a new job; job training in
past year to improve job skills; judgement on the relationship between
management and employees (working atmosphere); description of personal
commitment to work; identification with firm or organization (scale);
expected difficulties in finding a job as good as the current one;
self-assessment of one´s own substitutability; likeliness of job search
in the coming 12 months; worrying about one´s own job security;
accepted concessions to avoid own unemployment (accepting a job with
new demands, accepting of a lower paid position, temporary employment
and longer travel to get to work); existence of a side job;
self-assessment of psychological characteristics of personality.

Those who are not currently employed were asked: work for more than
one year and time last paid job ended; main reason for the end of
employment; interest in finding a paid job; expected difficulties in
finding a new job; currently looking for a job; activities in the
search for work; training activities to improve job skills in past
year; main income source.

Demography: sex; age; marital status; living together with a partner;
education and duration of education; current employment status;
occupation (ISCO88); 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.