Pretesting of special module on ICT at work, working conditions & learning digital skills (English Version)

Untertitel/Art des Pretests:

Cognitive Online Pretest

Auftraggeber:

European Commission

Guillermo Hernández

Projektbeschreibung:

The Community survey on ICT usage in households and by individuals is an annual survey conducted since 2002, collecting data on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), the internet, e-government and electronic skills in households and by individuals.
The Pretest lab of GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany) was assigned the task to conduct a cognitive online pretest of the special module on ICT at work, working conditions and learning digital skills by the European Commission. The main goals of this pretest were to support DG CONNECT in the context of developing a special module to feature in the 2018 EU survey on ICT usage in households and by individuals, help ensure robustness of the methodological approach and thus validity of potential responses, and to help to improve the formulation of questionnaire items to ensure an unambiguous understanding thereof.

Anzahl Testpersonen:

145

Auswahl und Merkmale der Testpersonen:

Quota sample.
This online-pretest was fielded in Great Britain and Germany. Half of the respondents were British (n=75), the other half were German (n=70). Due to the substantive topic of this pretest (ICT usage at work), the target population was employees and self-employed respondents.
The selection of the target population was based on the quotas age (18 to 65 years in three groups: 18 – 30; 31 – 50; 51 – 65), gender (male; female), and education (lower; higher education). In addition, a minimum of 20 percent of respondents in each country was expected to be self-employed.

Pretestmodus:

Web Probing

Feldzeit des Pretests:

10/2016 - 11/2016

DOI:

10.17173/pretest47

Zusammenfassung:

Befragungsmodus:

CAWI

Pretestmodus:

Web Probing

Vorgehensweise:

Usage of an online-questionnaire with additional open and closed probing-questions (Web Probing)

Testpersonenhonorar:

1.50 Euros

Pretestbericht (Englisch):

Zitation:

Meitinger, K., Neuert, C., Beitz, C., & Menold, N. (2016): Pretesting of special module on ICT at work, working conditions & learning digital skills (English Version). Cognitive Online Pretest. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Frage-Nr.	Pretestergebnisse	Typ	Konstrukt
1	Have you used any website or app to arrange a transport service (e.g. by car) from another individual in the last 12 months?	Single Question	Usage of websites to arrange transport services
2	In the last 12 months, have you used any internet platform/app (e.g. Upwork, TaskRabbit, Amazon Mechanical Turk…) as an intermediary for you to obtain regular or occasional paid work to carry out in a self-employed capacity?	Single Question	Usage of online services to obtain work
3	Think about your main paid job: Do you use computers, laptops, smartphones, or other computerised equipment at work?	Single Question	Usage of ICT for working activities
4	How often do you actively use such equipment at work?	Single Question	Frequency of ICT usage for working activities
5	How often have the following activities been part of your main paid job, in the last 12 months?	Multi-Item Scale	Frequency of performing ICT activities at work
6	In the last 12 months, did you have to learn how to use new software (programmes and applications)?	Single Question	Learning new software at work
7	In the last 12 months, have the main tasks of your job changed as a result of the introduction of new software (programmes and applications)?	Single Question	Changes in main tasks of job
8	Over the past year, have you been involved in choosing, improving or otherwise modifying the software (programmes and applications) used for work in your department or organisation?	Single Question	Involvement in software selection
9	Which of the following statements would best describe your digital skills at work?	Single Question	Assessment of own digital skills
10	In the last 12 months, did the usage of computers, laptops, smartphones, or other computerised equipment at work increase or reduce any of the following job characteristics, if any?	Multi-Item Scale	Impact of ICT on job characteristics
11	In the last 12 months, did the usage of computers, laptops, smartphones, or other computerised equipment have a positive or a negative effect on your work-life balance, if any?	Single Question	Effect of ICT usage at work on work-life-balance
12	Have you undergone any of the following learning activities to improve your digital skills during the past 12 months?	Single Question	Learning activities to improve digital skills
13	In which of the following domains did you undertake the training?	Single Question	Domain of training