Qualification and Course of Employment (1979)

Sample

Time Dimension

• Longitudinal: Panel

Collection Mode

• Interview
• Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

DataSets and Files

• Unit Type: Individual
  Number of Units: 29737
  Number of Variables: 444
  

Classification

Keywords

• Abstract

  Determination of qualification and course of professional career. Theinvestigation is divided into the following sections: 1. Education and training 2. Further education and retraining 3. Career course 4. Current employment 5. Mobility Topics: 1. Education and training: school education; schoolachievements; degree level and year of degree; subject area with yearof conclusion of vocational training; start and conclusion of companyvocational training; training occupation; judgement on relevance inpractice for employment today of knowledge acquired in school educationand in apprenticeship; company size, economic area and branch ofeconomy of company doing training; remaining with or leaving companydoing training and reasons for departure. 2. Further education and retraining: participation in courses foroccupational further education and retraining within or outside thecompany within the last five years; type of courses; usability of theknowledge acquired there for current occupational activity; courselength. 3. Career course: a) on first employment: employment in trainingoccupation; type of first employment; economic area, branch of economy,company size and status in profession. b) for the points in time 1970 as well as 1974 (later more accuratelyfor the survey year 1979) information on occupation at that time wasobtained: type of occupation; area of business affiliation of company;company size and length of company employment. c) in case of unemployment since 1974 the following was asked:frequency and length of unemployment. 4. Current employment: again the following was surveyed: branch ofeconomy and economic area as well as company size and exercisedoccupation; work areas, detailed determination of the requirements atwork and of job-specific knowledge; characteristics of occupation;materials used for work; detailed information on physical position andefforts at work; place of acquiring qualification for currentoccupation; usability of acquired training and further education;occupational satisfaction; (scale). 5. Mobility: information on change of occupation and career changesassociated with this; reasons for change of occupation; connection oftraining, further education and change of occupation; number ofemployers with whom one was employed; length of employment with currentemployer; satisfaction with course of professional life up to now;degree of possible reduction in earning capacity; city size; ZIP(postal) code. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages ofchildren (classified); income; social origins; city size; state.

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Coverage

Relations

Publications

• Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildungsforschung; Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (Hrsg.): Qualifikation und Berufsverlauf: Erste Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Erhebung bei Erwerbspersonen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Berlin: Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildungsforschung 1981. (Sonderveröffentlichung).