Attitudes and Motivation of Women Working in Agriculture on Training and Further Education

Utilization of and judgement on advice centers. Topics: Time required by household and business; time worked each week in summer and winter; available free time; work satisfaction; comparison of activity in agriculture with occupations outside of agriculture; employment before marriage and desire for activity outside of agriculture; satisfaction with current situation; sex-specific training model and attitude to further education in general and further education of women (scales); participation in further education events; traffic connections; time shortage and topic offerings as obstacles for participation in further education measures; satisfaction with events attended; extent to which informed about providers of further education events; reference person regarding further education; familiarity of further education events in radio and television; expectation of family regarding further education; utilization of and judgement on advice centers for family advice, advice for mothers and health, consumer advice, advice for companies and firms; attitude to advice centers (scale); type and frequency of reading newspapers; main focus of interests with books; satisfaction with personal education; local ties; attitude to sex education; frequency of car use; presence of parents or parents-in-law in household; structure of agricultural company.

Demography: memberships and functions taken on in a club; social origins; age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); school education; vocational training; occupation; size of household; composition of household. Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; presence of other persons; city size; distance from nearest small town as well as nearest large city. Also encoded was: identification of interviewer.