Austrian Work Climate Index

Summary

Strengths: The survey includes employed elderly persons in the sample who are above the official retirement age and is stratified by age. It also collects information on health staus and occupational health as part of overall satisfaction with working conditions. The linkage with the Gesundheitsmonitor allows for analysis of overall health conditions of sampled employees, not just occupational health, and the data is collected regularly and with relative frequency (4x per year). Weaknesses: The survey does not follow the sample over time and linkage with other datasets (other than the Gesundheitsmonitor) is not possible.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Other: Cross-sectional, ongoing

Data gathering method
Face-to-face

Access to data

Conditions of access

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Anonymised microdata

Formats available
SPSS

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data collection ongoing since 1997 (16 years); Online interface available since 2006. Approximately 1,000 persons are surveyed per wave (with 4 waves per year, this is approximately 4,000 persons surveyed per year). Since 1997, approximately 65,000 persons have been interviewed.

First year of collection
1997

Stratification if applicable
By state (Bundesland), size of town (population), sex, age

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
By state (Bundesland)

Age range
Population aged 15 and over

Statistical representativeness
Special group, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Data collected is on general economic and career outlooks, social status, views on company performance and treatment of employees, work-related stress, and work and general life satisfaction. Data on working conditions (current position, sector of economy, working hours, number of previous employers, career trajectory), basic sociodemographic information (individual and household level), and work-related health concerns is also collected. Corresponds to Work and Productivity and Health and Performance and Wellbeing Topics

Linkage

Standardisation
NA

Possibility of linkage among databases
Links fully to the Health Monitor (Gesundheitsmonitor) as the sample is the same for both

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
No errors reported

Breaks
In 2006, variables relating to occupational health and employee health status were added to the survey in a new initiative to collect data for the Health Monitor (Gesundheitsmonitor).

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
No inconsistencies in terminology or coding reporting

Governance

Contact information
Reinhard Raml
Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES)
Teinfaltstraße 8
1010 Wien Austria Phone: 4301546700
Email: reinhard.raml(at)ifes.at
Url: http://www.db.arbeitsklima.at/

Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected on a quarterly basis throughout the year. Data is available on the database website the following month after collection.