Summary information

Study title

Living Conditions and Way of Life of Older Citizens 1986

Creator

Institut für Soziologie und Sozialpolitik an der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin

Study number / PID

ZA6992, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.6992 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

Social conditions and relations in old age, social care services and need of care. Topics: Employment during the last 20 years; earlier shift work and management functions; current employment; reasons for non-employment; residential status; satisfaction with residence; availability of sources of day-to-day needs; shopping opportunities; desired changes regarding shopping opportunities; local residency; length of residence in current residence; place of residence of children; number of children; care during illness; current medical treatment; condition of health; need of care; help with jobs in household; daily warm meal; interest in provision of lunch; persons providing help in household; responsibility for looking after older citizens; concerns in daily life; availability of a telephone; reading a daily newspaper; information about events for older citizens; reasons for non-participation in these events; areas of interest (scale); opportunities for realization of interests; income; additional income.

Topics

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

02/1986

Country

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Specific sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1986

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

Related publications

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