1. Please answer all questions yourself and in the order that you come to them.
2. In answering the questions, you will be asked sometimes to fill in a box. For example, if you were 17 years old:
Age? Years ---
Sometimes you will be asked to circle your answer. For example, if you were a male: Sex (please circle)? MALE FEMALE
Other times you will be asked to write your answer. For example, if you have on the average three meals a day:
How many times a day on the average do you have a meal?
3. Don’t spend a lot of time working out your answers - just be as honest and quick as you can without rushing. Pleae give your own answers.
4. When you have finished, check that you have not missed anything, and post the booklet to me in the extra envelope provided.
SURVEY OF THE UNEMPLOYED
(Follow up: Receiving Unemployment Benefits) OFFICE USE ONLY
Questionnaire: Location: Date:
This questionnaire is for people who at the moment are registered for unemployment benefits. Please note that a “jo b ” refers to any paid full or part-time work.
PART A
SECTIO N 1
To begin with, a number of general questions.
1. Since you turned 16 years of age, what would be the total number of months you have been registered as unemployed? (Write number in box)
Months ---
2. When I last interviewed you, were you involved in volunteer or non-paid work of some kind?
(Please circle).
YES NO
If yes: i) what kind? (Please write) ________________________________________ ii) how many hours per week on the average?
Hours ---
3. Are you presently engaged in volunteer or non-paid work of some kind? (Please circle).
YES NO
If yes: i) what kind _____________________________________________________ ii) how many hours per week on the average?
Hours ---
How many times in a month on the average do you enquire about job vacancies i.e., looking through the situations vacant section in the newspaper; checking positions available at CES, and asking friends about vacancies?
No. of enquiries in a month --- How many times in a month on the average do you make an application for a job i.e., go for a job interview, fill out an application form?
No. of applications in a month ---
Since you became unemployed, could you state as accurately as possible the total number of applications you have made to get a job.
Total number of applications --- Looking into the future, when do you realistically expect that you will get a job?
Years Months Weeks
Do you have friends that are looking for a job 1 (Please circle)
YES NO
If yes: i) How many?
ii) Are your unemployed friends experiencing difficulty in getting a job? (Pease circle)
YES NO COULDN’T SAY
iii) On the average, how much time in a day would you spend in the company of your unemployed friends?
Hours Minutes
Do you feel that unemployed people generally experience difficulty in getting a job? (Please circle) YES NO Marital status; Do you live; (Please circle) Single 1 Married/defacto 2 Separated 3 Divorced 4 On your own? 1
With spouse/defacto partner? 2
Independently; but in a group house? 3
If (3) or (4); how many people are in the household (including yourself? People ---
9. Is there anyone in your parents’ family besides yourself, who is jobless but would like a job?
(Please circle)
YES NO
If yes: What relationship e.g. Father, Sister? ______________________________________ 10. Is there anyone in your parents’ family besides yourself, at present receiving unemployment
benefits? (Please circle)
YES NO
If yes: What relationship e.g. Father, Sister? _______________________________________ 11. Do you receive some financial support other than that provided by unemployment benefits?
(Please circle)
YES NO
If yes: What on the average would that be in a week? $ --- --- 12. Are you domg some form of study? (Please circle)
YES NO
If yes: i) Is the study part-time or full time? (Please circle)
PART-TIME FULL-TIME
ii) Name of course _________________________________________________ iii) How many hours per week does your course take?
Hours ---
13. Have you got lined up (and will be beginning soon), an apprenticeship, a job, school, University, or the like? (Please circle)
YES NO
If yes: i) What will it be? ii) When will it begin?
W ORK EX PERIEN CE
The following questions are designed to provide a picture of your work experience since I last interviewed you. Could you examine the following sections and see if one or more is relevant to you. Please note that a “job” refers to any paid full or part-time work.
SECTIO N 3
Since I last interviewed you on t h e _____________________________ , have you been continually registered for unemployment benefits? (Please circle)
YES NO
If yes: PLEASE PROCEED TO SECTION 4.
If no: i) When I interviewed you on th e ___________________________you were registered for unemployment benefits. How long did it take before your registration, at that time, ceased?
Time ___________________________________ ii) Did you later re-register for unemployment benefits? (Please circle)
YES NO
If no: PLEASE PROCEED TO SECTION 4.
If yes: i) How many times have you re-registered for unemployment benefits? Number of times ___________________________________ ii) How long did each period of registration last?
1st time ____________________________________ 2nd time ____________________________________ If more than 2 times, could you give your answer by writing it in the margin of this page.
iii) Are you at present registered for unemployment benefits? (Please circle)
YES NO