Dominance and Partnership

Concepts of marriage, family as well as sex roles and decision
structure within the family.

Topics: 1. Concepts of marriage: most important components of a
marriage; attitude to pre-marital sexual experience by men and women;
preferred age difference between man and woman; earlier concepts of
daily life in marriage and their current realization.

2. Attitudes to role flexibility: occupational activity of spouse;
attitude to employment of the wife; recognition of housework and
dealing with the double burden; interest in taking on a suitable
half-day position; work satisfaction. Among men: willingness to
increase help in household and to do without occupational advancement
for the benefit of the development possibilities of the wife; wife as
potential main earner.

3. Factual distribution of tasks: helping by children and husband in
housework; participation in the occupational interests of spouse;
responsibility for contacts with relatives and friends.

4. Children in one´s family: number and ages of children; education of
children; contemplated attendance at a full-time school; responsibility
for care of children and raising children; serious change in the
marriage at the birth of a child; increased attention to spouse or
children; planned activities after the children are gone.

5. Decision-making responsibilities and dominance relationships:
partner with the better ability to assert oneself with differences of
opinion before or in marriage; conflicts between spouses and children;
decision-making responsibility about amount of household money, larger
and smaller acquisitions, completion of contracts, occupation questions
and raising children; punishment of the children; decisions about
choice of evening television program; differences in amount of
pocket-money between the spouses.

6. Conflict points and conflict solution in the marriage: views on
conflicts in the marriage; conduct with conflicts; last discussion
about marriage questions; unsolved problems in the marriage;
satisfaction or desire for change of distribution of tasks in the
marriage.

7. Isolation attempts: type and frequency of activities without
spouse; desire for vacation without spouse; thoughts of divorce; most
important cause for a divorce; first or second marriage.

8. Miscellaneous: family or government as bearer of child-raising
tasks; political interest; frequency of overtime and activities after
quitting time; company size; television habits and reading habits;
tenancy; social origins and contact with parents; age at leaving
parental home; local residency; membership in clubs and organizations;
membership in a trade union and participation in its events; readiness
for membership in trade unions; party preference and party
identification; personal election participation at the last Federal
Parliament election; payment of wealth tax; scales: dominance and
traditionalism.

Demography: political interest; social origins; membership in clubs
und organizations; membership in a trade union and participation in
their events; party preference and party identification; age
(classified); sex; number of children; ages of children (classified);
age und number of siblings; religious denomination; religiousness;
school education; occupation; employment; household income; size of
household; composition of household; head of household; party
membership; self-assessment of social class.

Also encoded were: date of birth and city code.