Socialforskningsinstituttets omnibusundersøgelse, oktober 1991

The themes of this omnibus are: #Physical violence (whether the respondent has ever been pushed/shaken/slapped/punched/beaten with an object/thrown into furniture and walls, downstairs, etc./exposed to brutal assaults in the form of attempted strangulation, attacks with a knife or a firearm/threatened with physical violence, and whether it was by the respondent's spouse/cohabitant, former spouse/cohabitant, grown-up children, other family members, persons outside the family, or an unknown person/unknown persons; possible causes of the violence (pregnancy, conflicts or problems concerning children, alcohol abuse, severe illness, divorce or the wish to get a divorce, loss of job, conflicts concerning the family's economy, other causes); whether the respondent has ever been raped and whether the respondent knew the rapist; whether the respondent has ever had melaena and has contacted a doctor in this connection; and whether the respondent has been in contact with a doctor within the last month (telephone prescription renewal or renewal at a general practitioner, consultation at/visit by a general practitioner, visit by or consultation at the emergency service, asked the emergency service for advice on the telephone, consultation at a specialist, use of a casualty ward). # The Danish National Institute of Social Research and Danmarks Statistik have carried out the so-called omnibus surveys regularly from January 1974 till the end of 1991 (from 1993 the Danish National Institute of Social Research has carried out its own omnibus surveys). The omnibus project was established as the Danish National Institute of Social Research, Danmarks Statistik, a number of other government institutions and researchers often experienced a need for examining major or minor problems without initiating independent surveys. The purpose of these surveys is to collect data on a variety of issues in the same interview. This means that the background information may be used in several surveys, thus reducing the costs of the data collection. The omnibus surveys are carried out each year at regular intervals. # A permanent part of the questionnaire in an omnibus survey is the so-called background questions, i.e. a number of questions which map out the respondent's personal and social situation. These background variables are described in the section 'Variables included'. # In addition to the background questions the questionnaire includes questions from external users - questions which form part of the Danish National Institute of Social Research's or Danmarks Statistik's part of the omnibus in question. These questions may deal with a variety of subjects. In principle all types of questions may be included in an omnibus, even if the questions deal with many different subjects, as the editors link the various series of questions. In this way abrupt and strange breaks are avoided, breaks which might distrub the interviewing. Technically it is also possible to ask a number of questions only to specific sub-groups of the sample, e.g. to women in a certain age group. # The data material filed at the DDA comprises the background questions asked jointly by the Danish National Institute and Danmarks Statistik as well as the questions asked by the Danish National Institute of Social Research