Acquisition and Application of Occupational Qualifications 1991/92 (Qualification and Course of Employment)

Sample

Time Dimension

• Cross-section

Collection Mode

• Face-to-face interview: PAPI
• Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

DataSets and Files

• Unit Type: Individual
  Number of Units: 34277
  Number of Variables: 319
  

Classification

Keywords

• Abstract

  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 theeconomic situation of the company; limited or unlimited terms ofemployment; ABM position {job creation measure}; ABM activity ascontinuation of previous work; duration of company employment; fear oflay-off; perceived difficulties to find a new position. 2. Special qualification characteristics: characterization ofactivities conducted at work; most important activity at work; activityas full-time trainer; personally training apprentices; proportion ofworking hours for training others; formal entitlement to train;superior activity; assessment whether one´s own activity could as wellbe performed by a man or a woman or by less skilled; school or companyfurther education as most important sources of knowledge for thecurrent activity; characterization of special areas of knowledge forthe current activity; areas of knowledge in which knowledge throughfurther education would be necessary. 3. Materials for work: detailed determination of the materials forwork used by the respondent in the activity, thus e.g. means oftransport, vehicles, tools, machines, hand-controlled or automaticmachines, production facilities, office equipment, computers, precisionengineering as well as optical equipment, instruments for medical andchemical processes; identification of the most important materials forwork; work with program-controlled materials for work. 4. Working conditions and satisfaction: stressful working conditions;most important social and psychological job demands; general worksatisfaction; satisfaction with the individual factors of the job suchas income, prospect of promotion, atmosphere at work, surroundings, jobstress and further education possibilities. 5. Unemployment: unemployment in the last two years; entire durationof unemployment. 6. School and vocational training: school degree; year of schooldegree; conclusion of apprenticeship or partial training as skilledworker; apprenticeship discontinued; training occupation; type ofacquisition of conclusion of apprenticeship; length of apprenticeship;use of knowledge from the apprenticeship in the current activity; areaof business of the company doing the training; size of the companydoing the training; remaining with company doing the training afterconclusion of apprenticeship; job appropriate to training; length ofremaining in company after conclusion of apprenticeship; description ofthe transfer and the situation between apprenticeship and lasting job;master or technician examination; school degrees and year of lastdegree; subject area and job title. 7. Course of employment: year of first regular employment; number ofemployers up to now; interruption of employment for more than sixmonths; duration and reason for interruption of employment;participation in special qualification measures and further educationcourses before return to occupation. 8. Occupational further education: participation in courses andseminars in the last 5 years as well as currently; type and area of thecourse (distance education, outside work or within the company);acquisition of a certificate for the course; full-time or part-timecourse; duration of course; most important purposes of the course; useof other further education opportunities; information on knowledge offoreign languages; longer stay abroad. 9. Occupational mobility: change of occupation; change of company;becoming self-employed or remaining with the same employer after achange of occupation; motives for change of occupation; qualitativeimprovement in occupational situation through change of occupation;moves in the course of professional life. 10. Demography: size of household; living together with a partner;children in household and their ages; year of birth of respondent;country in which childhood was spent; German citizenship. The followingquestions were posed in the eastern part of the country: currentlylooking for work; search for work in the previous occupation;assessment of the occupational future; employment status; retrainingoccupation; desired occupation or compromise solution; retraining inthe company or in a training facility; participation exclusively infurther education or participation in normal work of the company;impact of short time work; short time work zero; date of leaving thelast position; type of last position; having a firm position beforestart of unemployment; date of leaving this position.

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Coverage

Relations

Publications

• Jansen, Rolf; Stooß, Friedemann (Hrsg.): Qualifikation und Erwerbssituation im geeinten Deutschland: Ein Überblick über die Ergebnisse der BIBB/IAB-Erhebung 1991/92. Berlin: 1993.
• Parmentier, Klaus; Plicht, Hannelore; Stooß, Friedemann: Berufs- und Erwerbsstrukturen: West- und Ostdeutschland im Vergleich: Ergebnisse aus der BIBB/IAB-Erhebung 1991/92. Nürnberg; 1993, BeitrAB 176.
• Clauß, Thomas: Ausbildung und Erwerbstätigkeit in den Bauberufen: Ergebnisse aus der BIBB/IAB-Erhebung 1991/92. Berlin: 1993.
• Damm-Rüger, Sigrid: Ausbildung und Berufssituation von Frauen und Männern in Ost und West: Ergebnisse aus der BIBB/IAB-Erhebung 1991/92. Berlin: 1994.