Literal question
11. Successfully completed education:
When you have two trained professions, or rather two completed post-secondary studies, the answer is the most important acquired profession or study (in connection with the earliest practiced profession).
For [those] under 15 years are excused from answering the question.
a) Community college, secondary school, special school, polytechnic training?
[] Yes
b) Have you successfully completed a final examination for general, sales clerk [customer service] (chamber of commerce), or skilled laborer certificate?
[] Yes
In which profession? ________
c) Have you completed a Technical College (= school without Matura)? (e.g. trade school, school for hotel management, electrical engineering school, etc. Attention: "vocational school" is not to be noted here; that belongs to teaching education, Question 11b).
[] Yes
Which? ________
d) Have you completed a middle school, high school (=schools with Matura), academy or college?
[] Yes
Type of school: ________
Area of Study (Major, Concentration): ________
Which graduation certificate have you achieved? (Please give all)
[] School leaving examination [Matura], high school diploma [Abitur]
[] Absolutorium, 3rd State test, Masters
[] Teaching profession for secondary schools
[] College diploma
[] Doctorate
[] Other college completion
Acquired in year: [space provided for each of the preceding options]
Interviewer instructions
Question 11 of the persons sheet
This question must be answered by all persons who are 15 years of age and older. At the every least, the first box (Community school, secondary school, etc.) must be marked (Control question). For the following questions, only the successfully completed training programs are allowed to be given. If the box is marked, the trained profession or the field of study of the completed training (11 c, d) must also answered.
Due to the fact that, by each box, only a single field of study can be evaluated, it is desirable that, by answering, the most important field of study should be noted. In case of doubt, the answer that is the truest summary as the practiced profession should be chosen.
For graduation diplomas, do not forget the graduation year.
Questions 12 and 13 of the persons sheet
For employed persons, the workplace should be answered here, where the daily profession can be found. Because the address of the workplace is promoted for the commuter statistics, the address of the management is therefore not intended but the building, or rather meeting place from which they are brought to the workplace. For police officer it is the patrol office, for traveling salesmen, if need be, it is their own dwelling, etc. Only employed persons who have a different workplace everyday, in order that an answer is futile, should answer "alternating work sites".
For pupils and students, here give the specific type of school (e.g. "technical school for electrical engineering", "advanced technical apprenticeship for electrical engineering") or the address of this school. Therefore all children must give an answer here who are 6 years and older. Unemployed persons and active duty personnel should give the previous work site or the school last visited.
