Eastern Germany - Life Situations and Social Structures 1990

Changes of social structures and life situations in the process of
German-German unification.
Topics: Employment; length of personal unemployment; form of property
of employing company; change of job and reasons for this; economy
branch in which occupational activity is exercised; social position
before and after November 1990 (self-classification according to GDR
social structure); industry branch to which the employing company
belongs; number of subordinate employees (self-employed);
characteristics of employment; assessment of standing of occupational
groups and of one's own occupation; intended actions given jeopardy
to job; territorial room for action for this; management function;
management level; membership in trade unions; functions in trade
union or other committees; personal shift work and that of partner;
preferred party for political representation of interests (scale);
membership in parties and organizations; functions in parties;
political participation; intended change of place of residence;
moving of friends to the FRG: point in time, contacts still existing,
assessment of their situation; change of living conditions in the
areas work, income, education and qualification, housing,
environment, children, social security, leisure time, health since
November 1990 (scale); development of interhuman relations;
satisfaction in individual areas of life (scale); expected changes of
living conditions (scale); possible activities to improve living
conditions (scale); change of personal freedom, of interest in
politics, of future optimism, of social activity, of pride in what
one has achieved in life, of family orientation; general
satisfaction, agreement with current development; concern about
environment, peace, developing countries, general economic situation
of GDR, drugs, AIDS, crime, radicalization, social security, job
security, equal rights for women, dealing with foreigners; assessment
"40 years GDR"; environmental pollution in residential area; tenancy;
form of property of residence and its effects on further remaining in
residence; residential furnishings; telephone; amount of rent as well
as its proportion in net household income; health disturbance;
handicapped members of household; religiousness.