Summary information

Study title

Acquisition and Application of Occupational Qualifications 1998/99 (Qualification and Course of Employment)

Creator

Jansen, Rolf (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung Bonn (BIBB))
Dostal, Werner (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (IAB), Nürnberg )

Study number / PID

ZA3379, Version 1.1.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.12247 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Description of work responsibilities, working conditions, job stress and possible changes of the situation at work. Occupation education and further education as well as individual mobility conduct. Topics: 1.) Cross-section part: occupation practiced (classification of occupation according to the occupation codes of the Federal Bureau of the Census of 1992); assessment of personal occupation as traditional or modern; further employment or side jobs; weekly working hours in primary and side job; stating materials for work with which one often works within the framework of the occupational activity (the respondents selected from lists with materials for work organized according to categories; such categories were e.g.: simple craft tools, precision engineering and special tools, power craft tools, soldering and welding equipment, machines, plant equipment, measuring devices, diagnosis equipment, computers, office communication equipment and writing equipment, means of transport, computer programs); occupational position; position at work; subject to to mandatory social security; type of employment (limited, unlimited, temporary work, job-creation measure); duration of employment with current employer and length of activity exercised in the current company; assessment of the risk of lay-off; economic area and area of business of the employing company; stating the location of additional branches and branch offices of the employing company; company size; assessment of the economic situation of the company; chronological organization of occupational activity (changing shift, night shift, holiday work and overtime); gross income and supplements; stating how frequently certain work responsibilities are carried out (e.g. training, teaching, consulting, informing, trade fairs, testing, supervising, repairing, purchasing and sales, acquisition, advertising, marketing, organizing, producing, researching); presence of formal entitlement to train apprentices as part of...
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Methodology

Data collection period

10/1998 - 03/1999

Country

Germany

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage
Multi-stage stratified random sample according to the random route procedure

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)
Oral, computer-aided survey with standardized questionnaire(CAPI- survey)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

C - Data and documents are only released for academic research and teaching after the data depositor's written authorization. For this purpose the Data Archive obtains a written permission with specification of the user and the analysis intention.

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