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[Questions 14 - 16 were asked of students currently attending school and people who were working]


15. Address of your daily workplace or school:

[] Workplace/school in this house
[] Other address, namely:

Street or locality, house number ____
Postal code ____
Municipality (Vienna: district) ____
If abroad: country ____


11 to 16. If several employments exist, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the job with the most working time. In case of a change of employment at the time of the census, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the situation on May 15, 1991. Persons who both attend a school and have an occupation answer questions 11 to 16, depending on whether they have defined themselves as "employed" or as "pupil, student" in question 10.

11. Status in employment: workers mark "skilled worker", "semi-skilled worker" or "unskilled worker", depending on their collective labor agreement placement in the business they are employed in.
A person is self-employed if he/she is not an employee but instead has a profession in his/her own account.
With/without employee: depending whether persons receiving wages or salaries are employed in the business or not. Self-employed persons whose only employees are family members who are not being formally paid, please mark "without employees".
Unpaid workers in a family business are working in the business of a family member without being formally paid.

12. Exact description of occupation: Your statements will be categorized in one of 300 different occupational groups, and we therefore ask you to be as precise as possible in describing your occupational activity.

Examples of precise description of occupation:

Gas welder for steel construction parts
Operator of data processing machines
Adjuster of men's shirts
Plexiglas cutter
Operator of plastic processing machines
Foreman of a dip-varnishing business
Electrician for high-tension transmission lines
Scientific researcher in the field of environmental protection


13. Branch of economic activity of the company or office: the branch of economic activity states to which branch the business or which you are working belongs to. Public service employees enter "federal administration", "provincial administration" or "municipal administration" depending on which government unit they are employed with.

14. Name of company or type of school you are presently attending: persons with several employers, cleaners) enter "several employers".

15 and 16. Address and journey to workplace or school: These questions are designed to describe your journey from your housing unit to your workplace or school. Teachers therefore state the school where they are teaching (school they are based at) and not e.g. School Inspection Authority.
Persons working in their house or on the same piece of property (e.g. janitors, farmers, homeworkers) or who live in the school building, mark the box "this house" for questions 15; these persons skip question 16.
If the workplace (school) is abroad, please state which country.
Persons with changing workplace (e.g. cleaning women, constructions workers) answer question 15 and 16 in accordance with the situation on May 15, 1991.
Persons who marked "not daily" in question 16a) can skip parts b and c.
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11 to 16, occupational questions:
If several employment relationships exist, please answer question 11 to 16 for the profession with the most working hours.

If you are changing employment relationships at the time of the population census, please answer questions 11 to 16 for the situation on May 15, 1991.

Persons who are employed as well as attending a school, answer questions 11 to 16 depending on if they designated themselves as "employed" or "student, pupil" in question 10.

Purpose of the question:
The results of the populations census in occupational and economic areas are of great importance for the planning administration, the economy, research and the representation of interests, because they present a cross section of the total of all employed persons. Other surveys (like e.g. local unit of employment census or the social insurance institutes) also provide data in this area, but not with the diversity, objectivity, and regional subdivision and combination possibilities of the population census.


[Questions 14 - 16 were asked of students currently attending school and people who were working]


15, Address of your work place or school:
Possible answers: "place of work (school) in this house", "other address, namely:"

Questions 15 and 16: Address and route to workplace or school: These questions serve the ascertainment of your route from the housing unit to place of work or school. Therefore, teachers enter the school where they teach (main school) not the state education authority.
Persons who work in their house or on the same property (e.g. janitors, farmers, home workers) or who live in the school building, mark the box "this house" for question 15; these persons are not required to answer question 16.

If the place of work (school) is located abroad, the country should also be stated.

Persons with changing work places (e.g. custodians, construction workers) answer questions 15 and 16 according to the situation on May 15, 1991.

Enumerator guideline:
For employed persons the place of work where they report daily should be entered. Because the address of the place of work is compiled for the commuter statistics, it is not the address of the company management that is meant, rather for construction workers the construction site or gathering place from which they are brought to the construction site, for police the guard room, for sales representatives their own housing unit if they start their journeys from there, etc.

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Employed persons that have a different place of work daily, answer the questions according to the situation on May 15, 1991.

Military draftees enter the address of the barracks, civil servants enter the agency where they perform their civil service.

Pupils enter the address of the school they currently attend. Students enter the address of the university building in which they attend most of their lectures or trainings.

Purpose of the question:
For an industrial society it is significant that the location of work and residence for many employed persons and most pupils are separated.

The depiction of the relationship between residence and location of work (school) takes place in the frame of the commuter statistics. Only a complete survey like the population census can present the commuter flows down to the municipal level. The population census is - apart from occasional analyses from other sources (marital status records, voter lists of the official representation of employees) - the only data source of commuter flows. One possibility that only the population census offers was already referred to: the simultaneous presentation of the educational, occupational and economic structure of employed persons by residence and place of work; with this it forms a unique source for regional economic investigations.

The frequent use of the commuter data of the population census appears in the statistics request of the ISIS-data base of Statistics Austria. The commuter flow chart is among the most requested population census data. Around 10% of all inquiries of population census data concern this chart.