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Change and Development of Ways of Family Life (Panel 1988-1994)
Creator
Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI), München
Study number / PID
ZA3209, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.3209 (DOI)
Data access
Information not available
Series
Not available
Abstract
Current life situation and ways of life. Social relations and courses of life.
Topics:
1. Children:
number of siblings;
position in sibling sequence;
sex of siblings;
growing up with both parents or with single-parent;
divorce or other reasons for separation of parents;
social origins;
child-raising goals;
desired number of children.
2. Partner biography:
living together with a partner;
living separately;
year of separation;
right to support;
regularity of payments deposited;
firm partnership;
difficulties in partnership;
thoughts of divorce;
talks with friends or partner as well as a lawyer about a possible divorce.
3. Questions on social net:
person to confide in;
persons with whom one regularly has meals and to whom emotional relations exist;
person from whom financial support is received or to whom provided;
leisure partner;
sex, type of relation, distance to residence and
frequency of contact with persons of one's social surroundings;
closeness and relation with other people and friends (scale);
number of living grandparents.
4. School, training and employment:
year of starting school;
year of completion of school;
time of first taking up occupational activity and
complete information on professional career;
current employment status;
looking for work;
hours worked each week;
temporary work;
work orientation (scale);
most important criteria for choice of occupation (scale);
child-raising and employment;
information on number of siblings, number of grandchildren,
number of grandparents, employment, occupational position and
hours worked each week of spouse;
division of tasks in the partnership and distribution of decision-making power;
attitude to marriage (scale);
characterization of partner relation (scale);
estimated weekly effort for activities for family and household;
attitude to children (scale);
religiousness;
postmaterialism;
residential status;
inheritance or purchase of real estate;
gift received to purchase real estate;
monthly rent or housing...
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Keywords
Not available
Terminology used is generally based on DDI controlled vocabularies: Time Method, Analysis Unit, Sampling Procedure and Mode of Collection, available at CESSDA Vocabulary Service.
Methodology
Data collection period
1988 - 1994
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Not available
Analysis unit
Not available
Universe
Not available
Sampling procedure
The complete sample of the ´88 dataset of respondents consists of three
sub-samples, all representing the same universe, but produced with
different sample procedures:
Sub-sample A
address-random by drawing addresses from the resident registry of
municipalities (number of cases net: 3011)
Sub-sample B
random-route based on the ADM sample system
(procedural variant with prescribed net) (number of cases net: 6931)
Sub-sample C
reliabiliy test, i.e. follow-up survey among selected
persons from the quota sample of pretest 2 (number of cases net: 101)
Random sample
The ´94 dataset contains a 50% sample of the persons interviewed
in 1988 in the old states (at the time of follow-up survey 24-61 years old)
Kind of data
Not available
Data collection mode
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1999
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.