A structured questionnaire was developed, covering individual and household characteristics, working hours and practices, sources of income, and views of the exemptions scheme and general motivation.
A structured questionnaire was developed during 2005, looking at individual and household characteristics, working hours and practices, sources of income, and views of the exemptions scheme and general motivation.
Logistics regressions were first conducted to estimate the odds of moderate occupational sitting time and high occupational sitting time (against low occupational sitting time) due to demographic characteristics, health behaviours and work characteristics (job grade, working hours).
Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics of regular working hours and after-hours cases.
Section D recorded the characteristics of the responding GPs (number of years in practice, practice setting (urban or rural), weekly working hours, work situation (alone or in partnership).
I can work flexible working hours at my workplace c.
Next to socio-demographic characteristics (i.e., age, gender, marital status, number of children living at home, education, job position, type of work shifts, contractual working hours, actual working hours), several personal characteristic measures (i.e., overcommitment, general self-efficacy, self-oriented perfectionism) will be included to control for individual differences.
Own working hours, own working location.
When looking more closely at the pattern for the intention to stay with respect to working-time characteristics, Figure 1 shows that, in the Netherlands, it seems to be lowest for people with a commuting time above an hour, followed by people working non-standard working hours, part-time or overtime hours.
Since the hypothesised associations can be influenced by the individual characteristics of the nursing staff, we controlled for age, gender, self-perceived health, number of working hours per week, working irregular shifts, performing managerial tasks and educational level.
Due to data limitations, our strategy to price fringe benefits does not control for immediate and delayed benefits, "longer working hours", or job characteristics.
