Total number of respondents: 2597.
| A1. What is your principal job function? (select one) | Responses: 2398 |
| Design & development engineering |   | 68.9% | 1652 |
| Engineering management | | 12.3% | 296 |
| Executive/operating management | | 6.8% | 162 |
| Other | | 12.0% | 288 |
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| A2. What is your job title? | Responses: 2385 |
| President/owner/CXO/other executive management | | 9.8% | 233 |
| Vice president/VP of engineering | | 2.2% | 53 |
| Department head/section head | | 3.6% | 86 |
| Technical director/director of engineering/R&D/engineering manager | | 5.3% | 126 |
| Group leader/project team leader/project manager | | 6.5% | 155 |
| Chief engineer/senior engineer/lead engineer/principal engineer | | 14.0% | 335 |
| Applications/systems engineering manager | | 1.6% | 37 |
| Hardware/software engineering manager | | 2.1% | 50 |
| Manufacturing/production manager | | 0.6% | 15 |
| QC/evaluation/test manager | | 0.7% | 17 |
| Design engineer/project engineer/R&D engineer | | 20.1% | 479 |
| Systems engineer/applications engineer | | 4.9% | 117 |
| Hardware engineer/software engineer | | 9.4% | 224 |
| Manufacturing/production engineer | | 1.3% | 30 |
| Test engineer | | 3.2% | 77 |
| Consulting engineer/scientist | | 3.5% | 83 |
| MTS | | 0.5% | 12 |
| Other | | 10.7% | 256 |
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| A3. Is this the same job title you held at this time last year? | Responses: 2415 |
| Yes | | 86.8% | 2096 |
| No | | 13.2% | 319 |
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| A4. If you changed job titles within the past year, what was the primary reason for change? | Responses: 559 |
| Promotion with same employer based upon merit/training | | 36.3% | 203 |
| Reassignment because of layoffs or restructuring with same employer | | 10.4% | 58 |
| Laid off or fired from previous company | | 6.8% | 38 |
| Left previous company to pursue other opportunities | | 23.8% | 133 |
| Other | | 22.7% | 127 |
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| A5. Which of the following best describes your current employment status? | Responses: 2412 |
| Full time | | 86.7% | 2091 |
| Part time | | 2.6% | 62 |
| Freelance/self employed | | 8.0% | 193 |
| Contract worker | | 1.7% | 40 |
| Other | | 1.1% | 26 |
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A6. How many hours during the typical workweek do you spend:
At your office? | Mean: 42.19 | Responses: 2383 |
| More than 60 hours | | 2.6% | 61 |
| 56-60 hours | | 5.1% | 121 |
| 51-55 hours | | 7.5% | 178 |
| 46-50 hours | | 19.8% | 472 |
| 41-45 hours | | 35.0% | 934 |
| 36-40 hours | | 15.7% | 374 |
| 31-35 hours | | 3.4% | 80 |
| 26-30 hours | | 2.3% | 55 |
| 21-25 hours | | 1.5% | 35 |
| 16-20 hours | | 1.8% | 42 |
| 15 or fewer hours | | 5.5% | 131 |
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| Working at home? | Mean: 8.06 | Responses: 2361 |
| More than 60 hours | | 0.7% | 17 |
| 56-60 hours | | 0.7% | 16 |
| 51-55 hours | | 0.3% | 7 |
| 46-50 hours | | 1.2% | 28 |
| 41-45 hours | | 1.1% | 26 |
| 36-40 hours | | 1.2% | 28 |
| 31-35 hours | | 0.8% | 20 |
| 26-30 hours | | 1.7% | 41 |
| 21-25 hours | | 2.0% | 47 |
| 16-20 hours | | 6.4% | 151 |
| 11-15 hours | | 5.8% | 137 |
| 6-10 hours | | 17.3% | 409 |
| 1-5 hours | | 35.8% | 845 |
| None | | 24.9% | 589 |
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| Working at other locations? | Mean: 2.25 | Responses: 2201 |
| More than 20 hours | | 2.5% | 54 |
| 16-20 hours | | 2.4% | 52 |
| 11-15 hours | | 1.6% | 36 |
| 6-10 hours | | 7.1% | 156 |
| 1-5 hours | | 18.5% | 408 |
| None | | 67.9% | 1495 |
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| On call? | Mean: 1.52 | Responses: 2155 |
| More than 10 hours | | 8.4% | 180 |
| 6-10 hours | | 2.5% | 54 |
| 1-5 hours | | 16.2% | 350 |
| None | | 72.9% | 1571 |
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| A7. Which of the following best describes your current design project? (select one) | Responses: 2399 |
| Computer product design (supercomputers, mainframes, workstations, servers, PCs, notebooks/laptops, peripherals, boards, etc.) | | 4.1% | 98 |
| Communications systems and equipment (local-area/wide-area networking products, wireless, cellular, RF and microwave, Bluetooth, etc.) | | 12.1% | 291 |
| Industrial controls systems and equipment (including robotics) | | 13.5% | 324 |
| Test and measurement equipment | | 8.0% | 193 |
| Power design | | 5.7% | 136 |
| Safety/security | | 1.5% | 36 |
| Research & development | | 8.6% | 206 |
| Software design/development/programming | | 4.9% | 117 |
| Medical electronics products | | 5.9% | 141 |
| Consumer electronics products | | 5.5% | 131 |
| Automotive electronics products | | 4.0% | 95 |
| Avionics, marine, or space | | 4.7% | 112 |
| Military electronics products | | 6.5% | 155 |
| Components and subassemblies | | 1.8% | 44 |
| ICs and semiconductors | | 5.5% | 132 |
| Other | | 7.8% | 188 |
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