ALLBUS/GGSS 1980-86 (Kumulierte Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/Cumulated German General Social Survey 1980-86)

ALLBUS (GGSS - the German General Social Survey) is a biennial trend survey based on random samples of the German population. Established in 1980, its mission is to monitor attitudes, behavior, and social change in Germany. Each ALLBUS cross-sectional survey consists of one or two main question modules covering changing topics, a range of supplementary questions and a core module providing detailed demographic information. Additionally, data on the interview and the interviewers are provided as well. Key topics generally follow a 10-year replication cycle, many individual indicators and item batteries are replicated at shorter intervals.

With few exceptions, the Cumulated ALLBUS 1980-1986 ALLBUS includes all data from ALLBUS 1980 (ZA1000), ALLBUS 1982 (ZA1160), and ALLBUS 1984 (ZA1340), as well as those variables from ALLBUS 1986 (ZA1500) that were also included at least once in previous ALLBUS surveys. As this data set contains extensive corrections in the data for 1980, 1982, and 1984, as well as a number of derived variables not available in the original data sets, we recommend using this integrated data set instead of the individual data sets for all cross-sectional analyses including the first three ALLBUS surveys.<br>ALLBUS 1980: importance of life aspects and job
characteristics; attitude towards and contacts with foreign
guest-workers (Gastarbeiter); educational goals; data on friends;
assessment of social conflicts in the Federal Republic; contacts with
administration as well as attitudes towards administration, family, and
the welfare state.

ALLBUS 1982: importance of life aspects and job characteristics;
educational goals; desired characteristics of children; role of women
in the family; attitudes towards abortion; assessment of the economic
situation and of social conflicts in the Federal Republic; religious
attitudes and participation in church life.

ALLBUS 1984: questions on occupational biography; relevance of
personal characteristics to social advancement; assessment of welfare
state and social inequality; attitudes towards and contacts with
foreign guest-workers (Gastarbeiter); confidence in public institutions
and organizations; perception of environmental pollution.

ALLBUS 1986: importance of life aspects; attitudes towards abortion;
assessment of economic situations.

For a more detailed description of the questions compare the
individual study descriptions.

ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender; age; place of
residence (federal state, size of municipality, Boustedt-type of
municipality); religious denomination, frequency of church attendance;
voting intention (Sonntagsfrage); currently at school or university,
general education, vocational training; employment status; details
about current occupation, industrial sector, supervisory functions,
working hours per week, size of company; date of termination of full-
or part-time employment; details about first occupation; details about
former occupation; length of unemployment; desire for work; principal
source of livelihood; respondent´s income; telephone; marital status;
marital biography.

Details about respondent´s current and former spouse.

Details about respondent´s parents: general education of parents;
father´s occupation.

Composition of household: size of household; household income; type of
dwelling, telephone.

Details about household members: relation to respondent; gender; month
and year of birth, age; marital status; income, German citizenship.
Respondent´s current memberships of various unions or trade
associations, political parties, religious organizations, citizens´
action groups, and other societies or clubs.

Added value: Inglehart-index; International Standard
Classification of Occupations (ISCO 1968), occupational prestige
(according to Treiman), magnitude prestige (according to Wegener),
occupational meta-classification (according to Pappi); weights.