Study title

Judgement on one´s own job situation and the situation in the job market in the course of time. This is a three-wave panel. Topics: First wave: The first wave of this investigation is at the same time the survey described under ZA Study No. 1084. Topics: professional career and satisfaction with occupational development; work satisfaction; job security; career orientation; attitude to occupational planning; correspondence of training and future demands of occupation; characterization of job; the route to work and means of transport used; characterization of company; judgement on the development of the company and the area of business; assumed difficulties in searching for work; accepting setback in a change of job; readiness for mobility; participation in further education measures within and outside work; readiness for further education; weekly working hours and overtime; assessment of self-confidence in selected situations (scale); judgement on the reasonableness of an offer of a position as worker or with lower income; memberships; residential status; type of city; size of municipality class; administrative district. Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; vocational training; household income; size of household; composition of household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household. Second wave: as a so-called panel maintenance a short questionnaire was sent to the respondents. In this mail survey (November 1980) the following questions were posed: current employment status; moving frequency; change of residence and distance moved; cause of moving. Third wave: The third wave is identical to the fourth wave of the unemployed survey as described in ZA Study No. 1362: assessment of the economic situation; times of employment or unemployment from 1978 to 1981; assessment of occupational consequences of personal unemployment; reason for last unemployment; number of jobs offered by employment office; one´s own...