Courses of Life and Social Change: The Between-the-War Cohort in Transition to Retirement (Life History Study LV-West II A - Personal Interview)

Detailed information and judgements on courses of life in the areas
family, education and employment.

Topics: 1. Family origin of target person: social origin; information
on natural mother, natural father or stepparents and foster parents as
well as on siblings; information on courses of life of siblings.

2. Residential history and places of stay: residence description and
reasons for change; supplemental questions on household structure and
mobility.

3. School and occupational training biography: school and occupational
training; political education.

4. Employment history, occupation and work life: positions and
activities of employment life; times of no contribution to retirement
program; gaps in employment; side jobs; occupational further education;
work efforts; memberships; war service; occupational reintegration
after the war; honorary activity; hobbies; illness history.

5. Personal family: marriage biography; partner situation; information
on former spouse; information on current spouse or companion through
life; information on children.

6. Economic situation: assets; income; pension situation. $7. Politics
and religion: biography of personal behavior at the polls; behavior at
the polls of parents; interest in politics in parental home; religious
upbringing, leaving the church and religious affiliation.

8. present activities, interests and needs.

9. Also encoded were:
number of contact attempts; number and length of presence of other
persons during interview; intervention of other persons in the course
of the interview; reliability of respondent answers; length of
interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer.

本数据集涵盖家庭、教育与就业领域的人生轨迹详细信息与评判内容。
具体主题如下：
1. 受访者家庭出身：即社会出身维度，包含生母、生父、继父母或养父母及兄弟姐妹的相关信息，以及兄弟姐妹的人生轨迹情况。
2. 居住经历与居留地点：包含居住状况描述及变动原因，附带有关家庭结构与人口流动的补充问题。
3. 学校教育与职业培训履历：涵盖就学与职业培训经历、政治教育情况。
4. 就业经历、职业与职场生活：包含职业生涯中的职位与活动、未缴纳退休保险的时段、就业空档期、兼职工作、职业继续教育、工作投入程度、职业相关会员资格、战争服役经历、战后职业复健、志愿活动、业余爱好及病史记录。
5. 个人家庭状况：包含婚姻履历、伴侣情况、前任配偶相关信息、现任配偶或终身伴侣相关信息，以及子女相关信息。
6. 经济状况：涵盖资产情况、收入水平、养老金状况。
7. 政治与宗教：包含个人投票行为履历、父母的投票行为、原生家庭的政治关注度、宗教教养经历、退教情况及宗教信仰归属。
8. 当前活动、兴趣与需求。
9. 同时还编码了以下字段：联络尝试次数、访谈过程中其他人员在场的次数与时长、访谈过程中其他人员的干预情况、受访者回答的可靠性、访谈时长、访谈日期及访谈员身份标识。