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ALLBUS (GGSS - the German General Social Survey) is a biennial trend survey based on random samples of the German population. Established in 1980, its mission is to monitor attitudes, behavior, and social change in Germany. Each ALLBUS cross-sectional survey consists of one or two main question modules covering changing topics, a range of supplementary questions and a core module providing detailed demographic information. Additionally, data on the interview and the interviewers are provided as well. Key topics generally follow a 10-year replication cycle, many individual indicators and item batteries are replicated at shorter intervals. Since the mid-1980ies ALLBUS also regularly hosts one or two modules of the ISSP (International Social Survey Programme). The main question module of ALLBUS/GGSS 1982 is “Religion and Worldviews,” which includes questions about cosmologies (opinions about the existence of a higher reality), views about the meaning of life, and questions about religiosity and religious denomination. Other topics include political attitudes and attitudes towards marriage, family and partnership.1.) Importance of life aspects and job characteristics: family and children, work and occupation, recreation and free time, friends and acquaintances, kinship, religion and church, politics and public life; preferred job characteristics (security, income, responsibility etc.). 2.) Attitudes towards marriage, family, and partnership: ideal number of children; importance of different educational goals; desired characteristics of children; the wife´s role in the family. 3.) Religiousness, cosmology, and church attachment: respondent´s and spouse´s denomination; former denominational membership; frequency of attendance to mass and reception of communion; funeral by church; interest in Christian programs in the media; marriage in church; number of children and baptism of children; religious education of respondent; attitude towards charity; self-assessment of...