Translation of "Zum zeitpunkt der befragung" in English

The reference period for all target variables is the current situation.

All target variables relate to the current situation as reference period.

Afterone year of the apprenticeship, at the time of the second survey, thistendency had been exactly inverted.

Those weights correct for the higher selection probabilities of unemployed persons registered in the Employment Office.

At the time of the survey, communicative competencies were being taught in all of the participating degree programmes.

At the time the survey was carried out, one European out of five said they "certainly" expected terrorist attacks.

At the time of the interview, 65% of the wives were in permanent employment, 1% in temporary employment.

FORMAL EDUCATION OR TRAINING ABANDONED (programme with the highest level in case of several programmes abandoned)

The reference period for all target variables is the current situation, except for the five variables on emotional well-being, which refer to the past 4 weeks.

All target variables relate to the current situation as the reference period, except for the two variables on the expectation of the household to change dwelling, which refers to the next six months, and the variables on unmet needs and on the visit to general practitioners and specialists, which refer to the past 12 months.

In the same way, if the person is off work at the date of the interview due to the complaint, only the days lost until this date are counted, even if the person already knows or foresees that this absence will continue in the next days.

It is therefore possible for the labour force survey to show how the size of the household and the number of children can, for example, affect the economic activity of women, or the extent to which certain households are particularly affected by unemployment because one or more members are unemployed.

Total household income is taken to be all the net monetary income received by the household and its members at the time of the interview (1995) during the survey reference year (1994).

Finally, when the person expects, at the date of the interview, never to work again for pay or profit (including family workers) due to the most serious complaint, this variable has to be coded '7'="Expects never to do paid work again due to this illness", whatever the actual number of days off work due to the complaint during the last 12 months that otherwise would have been coded using one of the categories 0 to 6.

In France and Portugal, training must occur at the time of the interview for it to becounted.

Individuals, who were still participating in the measure during the survey, noted positive effects of the support through the acquisition of job skills.

Household's total disposable income is taken to be total net monetary income received by the household and its membersat the time of the survey interview ? namely all income from work (employee wages and self-employment earnings), private incomefrom investment and property, plus all social transfers received directly including old-age pensions, net of any taxes and socialcontributions paid.

Looking next at the role the public desires the European Parliament to play shows that 41% of respondents personally wanted it to play a more important role than it did at the time of fieldwork while 22% were happy with its role.

In France, the Netherlands and Portugal, training must occur at the time of the inter­view for it to be counted.

Explanatory variables included in the econometric models comprise individual characteristics (age, health, marital status, education level, citizenship, born abroad), household characteristics (housing tenure, household type), information on the individual’s labour market history (labour market status at the previous date of interview, job characteristics one year ago if employed (occupation, industry, firm size, sector of employment, whether in a low paying job, job satisfaction), unemployment incidence and duration in the past five years, receipt of unemployment benefits, poverty and social exclusion status one year ago), local labour market characteristics (country, age, gender and year specific unemploymentrates)andcountryand year identifiers.

The authors found some difficulty in deciphering the specific contributions and issues which worker directors chose to become involved in during their first twelve to eighteen months in office, since it is quite difficult to reconstruct a person's involvement in an issue which one is not observing for oneself; for instance, if an issue is under consideration at the time a respondent is being interviewed he may be highly involved and go into considerable detail, whereas if one were to enquire at a later stage, when the issue has been resolved, the matter could well be disposed of in a sentence or two.

In the current example, seven categories were defined with a range from category 1, TAD is zero (inactive person) = 0days/year up to category 7, TAD is fairly highto extremely high = 10.0 or more days/year.This seven-step category system has beenemployed for the presentation of data in figure 1 and further a four-step system is demonstrated in table 1 (both see below).

In evaluating national policies, the status of young people on the labour market is generally defined in the light of national criteria (for example by the different categories of unemployed people or the beneficiaries of work integration measures), and these are more detailed than the categories used in international classifications.

In addition, interviews were conducted with some disabled people whose vocational integration had failed and who were not in open employment at the time of the interview.

High costs also result from most employers being too small to achieve economies of scale and specialization in pro viding training.

The 1950s were above all dominated by activities related to the teaching of his­tory and more specifically schoolbooks to combat stereotypes, prejudices and mutual ignorance: it is interesting to note that these activities have been relaunched on a large scale since the accession of central and eastern European countries from 1989 onwards.