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Judgements and information on the course of employment and family biographies. Topics: Living together with a partner; length of living together; marriage date; assistance for close persons; residential status; employment biography; description and evaluation of employment sequences; reasons for change of occupation; most important reasons for part-time employment and lack of employment; preferred opportunities of compatibility between employment and family; satisfaction with course of life up to now; desired changes in one´s own employment biography und that of partner; number of children and detailed information on individual children; desired number of children; desired number of children in the individual phases of life; number of children realized and reasons for changes in the desire for children; description of the situation regarding housing, partner and education when the respondent was 16 years old; description of change of family and partner situation in successive sequences; separations; income situation and satisfaction with family income; information on events in one´s life with particular significance; type of building; city size. Also encoded was: ZIP (postal) code.