Life in Eastern Germany 1994

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, residence,
religion, environment, leisure time; general contentment with life;
materialism and postmaterialism; current subjective classification of
social class and approx. 10 years ago; extent to which informed about
the system of social security, culture and leisure selection,
problems with children, qualification and education opportunities,
healthful way of life, work law, partner relations, work,
environmental protection, establishment of wages and prices, housing
market; attitude to foreigners (scale); views on structuring life;
time horizons; building loan contract, life insurance or loans;
satisfaction with selected sides of life (scale); change of
satisfaction in individual areas of life (scale); assumed
satisfaction of other groups; reasons for unemployment; fear of
personal unemployment; acceptance of conditions to avoid of personal
unemployment; reasons for unsuccessful search for work so far;
preferred leisure activities (scale); party membership or party
sympathies; membership in clubs, trade unions, citizen initiatives;
willingness to participate in various organizations; understanding of
democracy; interest in politics; expectations of family and friends
of one's conduct; assessment of personal economic situation, of the
state and of the Federal Republic; duration of income equalization
East-West; status and extent of achievement of equivalent living
conditions for East and West; German unification as gain or loss;
attempt to change situation in various areas of life; expected social
changes in the next few years; desire for children; change in desire
for children since unification; temporal deferral of fulfillment of
the desire for children; future development of birth rate in Eastern
Germany; time worked each week; shift work or flextime; work on the
weekend; limited work contract; changes of occupational demands in
comparison to the time before the turning point; the route to work;
desire for part-time work, "jobbing", not working at all; preferred
arrangement of working hours; arrangement of working hours in
Germany; protection of jobs and reduction in unemployment through
reduction in working hours; reduction of working life, annual and
weekly time worked; acceptance of new arrangements of working hours
to protect one's own job; personal unemployment; future employment
situation; religious community; sources of income (scale); number of
children in household; financial possibility to satisfy needs;
tenancy; desire to purchase residence; residential furnishings;
self-assessment of condition of health; change of instinctive
relations to various groups of persons since unity of Germany.