Study title

The "Familie-enquête Nederlandse bevolking 1992-1993" ( Netherlands Family Survey 1992 - 1993 ) is a dataset on socio-economic characteristics and family background of spouses ( as well as a subsample of singles ), collected in 1992-1993 among a multi-stage random sample of 21 - 64 years of age of the Dutch population, conducted under the joint direction of principal investigators Wout C. Ultee and Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, at the Department of Sociology at Nijmegen University. The survey contains data on: 1000 primary respondents who were interviewed in a mixed oral and self-administered questionnaire. 800 spouses of primary respondents interviewed at the same time with ( virtually ) the same instruments, followed by mail surveys of one randomly selected surviving parent and one random sibling of the primary respondent. Themes: Full account in life history format for both spouses of: educational history, including level and type / occupational history, including illness, unemployment/ occupation includes occupational title, industry, employment status, supervising status, hours worked, income at beginning and end of job spell / life history of non-labour force activities ( voluntary work, illness, unemployment ) / residential history, including housing history / marital history, including previous spouses. Detailed and elaborate social and cultural characteristics of the parental family of both spouses, including education, occupation, culture consumption, material consumption, transfer of income and property as reported by all respondent-groups. Lifestyle characteristics: consumption, cosmopolitan behaviour, media behaviour. Political attitudes and behaviour, voting behaviour, post-materialism. Religious attitudes and behaviour. Education and Occupation data for all siblings and all children as reported by primary respondents. Attitudes and behaviour regarding division of household-labour as reported by both spouses. Family-ties with parents / parental home...