Study title

Follow-up survey at an interval of five years with the same major topics: 1. The social and occupational situation of the respondent and his relatives, 2. The attitudes to social inequality, 3. The financial situation and attitudes to income questions and 4. Political attitudes and concepts of justice. Topics: 1. Social and occupational situation: housing conditions; number of persons in the household; sex, age and family relation of all persons living in the household; number of persons employed in the household; employment and employer of respondent; occupation; exact description of occupational activity; type and size of company; supervisor status and span of control; duration of employment in this company; unemployment in the last 10 years; type and year of highest school degree; occupational training; marital status; partnership; type and year of school degree of partner; occupational training of partner; employment of partner; type of company of partner; occupational position of partner; exact description of occupational activity of partner; time of start of possible unemployment; employment of father in youth of respondent or reason for non-employment and occupational position of father as well as exact description of the occupation (social origins); earlier employer; length of earlier employment and type of company; occupational position in this earlier employment and exact description of this activity; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; solidarity with the religious community; union membership of respondent and persons in the household; solidarity with trade unions; In Germany: place of residence before 1989, place of birth, length of residence and previous place of residence, each differentiated according to East and West. 2. Attitudes to social inequality: self-assessment on a class scale as well as a top-bottom scale (in Germany: also before 1989); assessment of the proportion of poor and rich people in one's country (in Germany:...