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Change and Development of Forms of Family Life in West Germany (Survey of Families)
Creator
Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI), München
Study number / PID
ZA2245, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.2245 (DOI)
Data access
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Series
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Abstract
Current partner relations and partner relation in the course of one´s
life up to now. Family relations in the framework of the social
network. Education and employment biography.
Topics: 1. Children: number of siblings; growing up with both parents
or with a single parent; divorced parents in childhood; education and
occupational training of father and mother; educational goals; number
of children or desire for children; detailed information on date of
birth, sex, status, place of stay, school attendance, vocational
training, attendance at a kindergarten and child care after school for
every individual child; desired number of children; living together
with a partner; living separately; right to support or personal
obligations to pay; regularity of payments deposited.
2. Partner biography: steady partnership; detailed information for
every partnership regarding: time of getting to know each other, start
of actual partnership, start of living together in a residence, number
of common children, age difference from partner, marital status and
school degree of partner, differences in religious denomination and
citizenship, marriage and continued existence of partner relation, time
of termination of the relation.
3. Questions on social net: person to confide in; reference person;
description of the persons of the social network; persons with whom
regular common meals are taken and to whom emotional relations exist;
persons from whom financial support is received or to whom given;
leisure partner; secondary residence; sex, type of relation, distance
to residence and frequency of contact with persons of one´s social
surroundings; number of siblings, number of grandchildren as well as
number of grandparents on the part of respondent and for spouse.
4. School, training and employment: school degree and year of school
degree; occupational training; time of first taking up an occupational
activity and if appropriate ending occupational activity; number of
hours each...
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Methodology
Data collection period
08/1988 - 12/1988
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Not available
Analysis unit
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Universe
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Sampling procedure
The total sample of respondents consists of three subsamples, all
representing the same sampled population but produced with different
sampling procedures:
Subsample A: address-random with drawing of addresses from the
resident registry of municipalities (net number of cases: 3011).
Subsample B: random-route based on the ADM sample system (procedural
variant with prescribed net) (net number of cases: 6931).
Subsample C: reliability test, i.e. follow-up survey among selected
persons from the quota sample of pretest 2 (net number of cases: 101).
Random selection.
Kind of data
Not available
Data collection mode
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1992
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.