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Qualification, description of activity and career course. Topics:1. Current or last employment: average time worked each week; occupational activity; economic area; area of business; company size; occupational position; since when self-employed; judgement on the economic situation of the company; limited or unlimited terms of employment; ABM position {job creation measure}; ABM activity as continuation of previous work; duration of company employment; fear of lay-off; perceived difficulties to find a new position. 2. Special qualification characteristics: characterization of activities conducted at work; most important activity at work; activity as full-time trainer; personally training apprentices; proportion of working hours for training others; formal entitlement to train; superior activity; assessment whether one´s own activity could as well be performed by a man or a woman or by less skilled; school or company further education as most important sources of knowledge for the current activity; characterization of special areas of knowledge for the current activity; areas of knowledge in which knowledge through further education would be necessary. 3. Materials for work: detailed determination of the materials for work used by the respondent in the activity, thus e.g. means of transport, vehicles, tools, machines, hand-controlled or automatic machines, production facilities, office equipment, computers, precision engineering as well as optical equipment, instruments for medical and chemical processes; identification of the most important materials for work; work with program-controlled materials for work. 4. Working conditions and satisfaction: stressful working conditions; most important social and psychological job demands; general work satisfaction; satisfaction with the individual factors of the job such as income, prospect of promotion, atmosphere at work, surroundings, job stress and further education possibilities. 5. Unemployment: unemployment in...