Description
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The study was designed to provide detailed data on the conditions of work of employees, and the nature of their leisure activities, so as to allow analyses of hypothesised relationships between work and leisure, which in the main suggest that employees choose leisure activities whose characteristis are similar to those of their jobs. The data deal with a subsample of industrial workers from an interview survey of working adults in an industrial community on Vancouver Island. Included in the data are measures of technical constraints and of social interaction at work. Variables include: no. days off; sex; age; education; household composition; marital status; presence of children; family type; household size; employment status of spouse; birthplace; residential history; years in present residence; tenure; own car, tv, boat; work history; employer continuity; job mobility; work place; type of remuneration; skill level; authority; supervision; position of boss; boss surveillance; communication with boss; shift work; lateness; overtime; work at home, in spare time; moonlighting; worktime hours, moonlighting hours, building hours; days off; job technology; work operation; job confinement; pacing; task dependence; work stop effects; slack periods, activity; talking at work, content; transport to work; 1963 federal election vote recall; 1963 provincial election vote recall; 1964 municipal election vote recall; local referendum vote recall; time spent in public places, visiting, hobbies, driving; union membership; contact with union, incl. positions held, grievances; union local; church membership; church attendance; religion; other association memberships, incl. positions held, attendance, participation; workday time budget, hours and partners; days off time budget including hours and partners.
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