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B. SELECTED RESULTS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY
ON THE ATTITUDES OF IT/ICT EMPLOYEES
B1. Survey Methodology and Selection of Respondents
In 2006 a survey of students and employees in the field of information technologies in the
Czech Republic was carried out in the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs in
cooperation with the University of Economics in Prague. This research was part of the wider
research focussed on the risk of “brain drain.”
Its objective was to determine the level of potential risk of Czech information and
communication technology specialists leaving the Czech Republic for other countries.
The questionnaire survey on the foreign work migration of IT/ICT workers took place from
March to October, 2006. The subject became the IT/ICT workers in a wide spectrum of
specialisations (from programmers, through SW architects to IT/ICT salesmen) from various
types of organisations (from IT/ICT companies, through the IT/ICT departments of
companies and universities), with regional representation throughout the entire Czech
Republic, with Prague dominating (83%) nevertheless.
The inquiry took the form of filling in an electronic questionnaire located on the Internet at
the address http://vupsv.periskop.cz. Information on the research (with requests for filling in
the questionnaire) were published on www.cssi.cz, contacts of problem solvers in IT/ICT
companies an IT/ICT departments of various organisations and graduates of the Department
of Information Technologies of the University of Economics were approached for
cooperation, i.e. to pass it on to the eventual colleagues in work. Students of IT/ICT
departments from various universities were also asked (see part C). The questionnaires were
completed by a total of 276 respondents.
The selected sample 39 makes no claim to being representative - it is purely a probe into the
attitudes towards foreign work migration for a specific group of highly qualified specialist
professionals at risk of migration.
39 The surveyed specialists were most often employed as Developers or Programmers (24% of those surveyed).
Other frequent positions were Project Manager / IT/ICT Manager (17%), System Administrator (11%), IT/ICT
Consultant (11%) and Analyst (10%). Other positions were less frequent. Those surveyed worked most often in
companies that developed their own SW (30%) and at system integrators (19%). They were also working for
companies outside of the field of IT/ICT (18%) and also for SW sellers (11%), telecommunication companies
(11%) and other types of companies from the IT/ICT field. More than half of the respondents worked for
companies that were purely Czech (55%). On the other hand 34% worked in the Czech branch of a foreign
company. The remaining 11% were employed in Czech companies with foreign participation. They were most
often large companies with over 250 employees (26%) followed by medium-sized companies with 50-249
employees (26%), small companies from 10-49 employees (20%) and micro-enterprises (14%). Only 5% worked
outside the commercial sector in non-state, allowance or budgetary organisations
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