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Quality of life and satisfaction in selected areas of life.
Evaluation of financial, occupational and health situation.
Topics:
1. housing situation:
housing situation in primary residence;
number of rooms;
floor space in square meters;
furnishing characteristics of the residence;
residential status;
satisfaction with one's residence and residential area;
satisfaction with housing;
satisfaction with public safety and the fight against crime in the country
as well as sense of security in residential area (victimization probability);
satisfaction with environmental protection in the country (scale);
stress scale for noise, air pollution, lack of free nature,
destruction of countrside and quality of drinking water;
readiness for sacrifices in standard of living
for the sake of environmental protection;
openness to innovation;
attitude to aid to those wanting to die (scale).
2. society:
postmaterialism (Inglehart- scale);
perceived conflicts between selected social groups;
comparison of current personal living conditions with those
at the time of unification in 1990 and
the course of living conditions since 1990;
characterization of personal situation in life:
optimism/pessimism, work orientation, loneliness, fatalism;
satisfaction with training (scale);
self-classification of social class;
memberships;
current feeling of happiness;
available leisure time;
satisfaction with leisure time (scale);
state of birth;
length of living in Eastern Germany or in Western Germany.
3. household:
detailed information on size of household and persons living in it
(number of persons living in household;
persons under 18 years in household;
head of household);
satisfaction with family life (scale);
living together with a partner;
employment of partner;
reasons for partner's not being employed;
occupational position of partner;
marital satisfaction or satisfaction with partnership (scale).
4. social contacts:
contact opportunities;
possession and number of close friendships;
frequency...
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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
10/1998 - 12/1998
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Not available
Analysis unit
Not available
Universe
Not available
Sampling procedure
Multi-stage stratified random sample (ADM mastersample)
Kind of data
Not available
Data collection mode
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
2001
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.