Interviewer instructions
This is not the number of [POSITIONS] the firm intends to add in the year, but rather the total number it expects to have in that [POSITION] at the end of the year.
Example: If a respondent says that the company has 8 technicians now and expects to keep these workers and add 2 more in the next 12 months, then the correct answer to enter in 1.17 is 10.
Or if the respondent says that it now has 8 workers in [POSITION] but plans to reduce the number by 3 in the next 3 months, then you would write ‘5’ here.