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1. Information on working hours and leisure time 2. Time budget for a week Topics: 1. Oral survey: city size; residential status; number of rooms; possession of durable economic goods; frequency of use of computers in occupational as well as in private areas; frequency of contact with friends outside of personal household; number of friends; club membership; intensity of participation in club life; other memberships; frequency of one-day excursions, short vacation trips and longer vacation trips; frequency of vacation over 5 days and absence from home during vacation time; time worked each week and number of overtime hours per week; type of compensation for overtime; amount of overtime supplement; actual number of hours each week; secondary occupation; flextime; frequency of Saturday work as well as Sunday work; number of successive work days and number of following days off; years of shift work; company requirement or free decision for this form of working hours; estimate of the necessity of shift work in one´s company; since when shift work in the company; arrangement of shift work in two, three, or four shift change; frequency of shift change. The following additional questions were posed to self-employed: free division of working hours; work in the evening and on weekends; separation of work and personal life; employment of partner; time worked each week and overtime of partner; weekend work as well as situation of working hours of partner; shift work of partner; positive or negative effects of one´s own working hours on various areas such as health, course of the day, leisure activities, further education, vacation, partner, child care, raising children and friends; school-age children in household; effects of arrangement of working hours on the possibility to go to government offices, shopping, trips to the doctor, attending club events, libraries, sport facilities and movies; improvement recommendations to reduce the...