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Living conditions of farming families and attitude of company owners to questions of agricultural policy. Topics: size of agricultural area and property proportion; size of forest possession. The following questions were posed to those farming as a second occupation: length of second occupation farming of the company; judgement on time of conversion from primary to second occupation; company conversions conducted or planned; personal feeling of identity as employee or as farmer; perceived stress from farming the agricultural company; reasons for remaining in farming; use of money from income outside the company in the agricultural company; judgement on the significance of income from outside the company for one´s livelihood; prospects of promotion in the primary occupation; fear of unemployment. To all respondents: contributions to the agricultural retirement fund; size of residential and arable land farmed; possibility of leasing new areas; judgement on current amount of land of the company; desired company expansion; use of arable land; cultivation of intensive cultures; personal participation and perceived problems in co-operative use of machines; giving work to sub-contractors; direkt sales of agricultural products to consumers; types of animals maintained; average annual milk production per cow; level of daily milk production in the company; intended changes in livestock maintenance in the next five years; necessary changes regarding stables, working quarters, technical equipment and residential building; planned future continued running of the company as primary or second occupation; planned expansion of an activity outside of the company; assumed reasons for not taking up a non-agricultural activity; importance of selected areas of life; advantages and disadvantages of the agricultural occupation; satisfaction with occupation; fair earnings; assumed income development in the next few years; feeling of obligation to maintain the farm for the next...