Summary information

Study title

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

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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

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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.

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