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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.Desired division of time for selected activities such as work, leisure time etc.; work orientation (scale); accomplishment of work in household; most important criteria for determination of level of one´s own salary; perceived continual conflict between employees and employers; judgement on the necessity of trade unions; importance of selected job demands and fulfillment of these demands; most important problems resulting from unemployment; preference for status as employee or professional self-employment as well as for working in a large company or in a small business; preference for work in service area or in industry as well as in the private economy or in the public sector; attitude to a job guarantee by the state and appropriate support for the unemployed by the state; part-time employment; interest in full-time employment; expected difficulties in looking for work; description of personal commitment at work; preference for more work and more pay or more leisure time; security of one´s own job against unemployment; significance of career possiblities and flexible organization of working hours; characterization of work as hard physical activity and description of the extent of stress at work; physical exhaustion after work;...