Life in Eastern Germany 1991

Social change in Eastern Germany during political and economic
transformation.
Topics: Hopes and fears; importance of selected areas of life such
as work, partnership, education, social security, health, housing
situation; general contentment with life; satisfaction with
environmental situation and environmental conduct (Skalen); extent to
which informed about the system of social security, cultural and
leisure offering, qualification and education opportunities,
healthful way of life, rights, partner relations, work, environmental
protection, establishment of wages and prices, housing market,
product selection; stand on the new legal system; trust with legal
problems in trade union, organizations, lawyer, court; persons to
whom one can turn for financial support; satisfaction with selected
side of life (scale); expectations of family and friends of one's
conduct; preferred leisure activities (scale); changes in
organization of leisure time and its evaluation; party membership or
party sympathies; attitude to political participation; activities to
improve personal situation in life; expected social changes in the
next few years; self-assessment of condition of health; activities to
promote health; desire for children - earlier and under influence of
the social turning point; occupational changes in the last year and
their evaluation; assessment of the primary causes for unemployment;
management activity; time worked each week; shift work or flextime;
occupation characteristics; current occupational qualification;
number of marriages; satisfaction with selected sides of the
partnership (scale); changes in family climate in the last year;
number of children born and years of birth; financial possibility of
satisfying needs; number of children in household; price and quality
comparisons in shopping; preferred dealing with money; acquisitions
since currency union and planned expenditures; religiousness; source
of income (scale); tenancy; amount of rent; desire for condominium or
one's own house; residential furnishings.