ALLBUS/GGSS 2000 CAPI-PAPI (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 2000 CAPI-PAPI)

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.

Since the mid-1980ies ALLBUS also regularly hosts one or two modules of the ISSP (International Social Survey Programme).

The focus of ALLBUS/GGSS 2000 is on the replication of previously fielded ALLBUS questions covering an extensive range of topics including, for example, social inequality, politics, religion, social networks, and deviant behavior. In addition to the replicated questions, the data set contains newly designed questions on the desire to have children and on economic perceptions. Also included are the ISSP modules "Environment II" and "Social Inequality III." ALLBUS/GGSS 2000 CAPI-PAPI comprises all the data from the main CAPI-survey and the methodological companion PAPI-survey.<br>1.) Attitudes towards marriage, family, and partnership: family
as a prerequisite for happiness; marriage in case of steady partnership
or if child was born; attitudes towards the role of women in the family;
attitude towards employment of women; ideal number of children;
importance of educational goals; attitudes towards abortion.

2.) Importance of job characteristics: preferred job characteristics
(security, income, responsibility, etc.); fear of unemployment or loss
of business.

3.) Political attitudes: political participation; party inclination;
confidence in public institutions and organizations (public health
service, federal constitutional court, federal parliament (Bundestag),
city or municipal administration, armed forces, churches, judiciary,
television, newspapers, universities, federal government, trade unions,
police, employment offices, retirement insurance, employers´
association, European Community Commission, European Parliament,
European Court of Justice); identification with own municipality, the
federal state, the old Federal Republic resp. the GDR, unified Germany
and the EC; political interest; postmaterialism (importance of law and
order, fighting rising prices, free expression of opinions, and
influence on governmental decisions); self-placement on left-right
continuum; influence of politics on our life; political support
(satisfaction with democracy in Germany).

4.) Deviant behavior and sanctions: opinion on various deviant acts
with reference to their reprehensibility and the degree to which they
deserve prosecution; respect of the law; probability of engaging in
various deviant acts in the future; self-reported deviant behavior;
assessment of probability of being caught committing various crimes;
lowering the crime rate through severer punishment; own victimization.

5.) Attitudes relating to the process of German re-unification:
attitudes towards the demand for increased willingness to make
sacrifices in the West and more patience in the East; more advantages
for East or West through re-unification; future of the East depends on
the willingness of eastern Germans to make an effort; strangeness of
citizens in the other part of Germany; performance pressure in the new
states; attitude towards dealing with the Stasi-past of individuals;
evaluation of socialism as an idea.

6.) Attitudes towards ethnic groups in Germany and to migration:
attitude towards the influx of eastern European ethnic Germans, asylum
seekers, labor from EU or non-EU countries; citizenship (nationality),
scale of attitudes towards foreigners and contacts with foreigners within
the family, at work, in the neighborhood, or among friends.

7.) National pride: pride in German institutions and German
achievements; pride in being a German.

8.) Attitudes towards social inequality and the welfare state:
prerequisites for social success and upward mobility; evaluation of
personal occupational success, evaluation of equal educational
opportunities for all; self- assessment of social class; fair share in
standard of living; attitudes towards the welfare state and social
differences; attitudes towards the German economic system and evaluation
of policies supporting the welfare state; attitudes towards social
differences and conditions for social success; satisfaction with life in
the Federal Republic; evaluation of own social security; attitudes
towards expansion or cuts in social services.

9.) Other topics: social pessimism and orientation towards the future
(anomia); general trust in fellow men; self- assessment of
religiousness; marriage in church; baptism of children; desire to have
children; friends (ego- centered networks), party preference of and
mutual familiarity between friends, German citizenship (nationality) of
friends, assessment of the present and future economic situation in
Germany and in one´s own federal state; assessment of present and future
personal economic situation; comparison of economic situations in
different periods of time; estimation of unemployment figures.

10.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender; month and
year of birth, age; geographical origin and personal mobility,
citizenship; place of residence (federal state, administrative region,
size of municipality, BIK-type of municipality) and length of residence;
religious denomination, frequency of church attendance; voting intention
(Sonntagsfrage); general education, vocational training; employment
status; details about current occupation, affiliation to public service,
supervisory functions, working hours per week; length of unemployment;
date of termination of full- or part-time employment; details about
former occupation; respondent´s income; marital status; marital
biography; membership in a trade union or political party.
Details about respondent´s current spouse: age; general education,
vocational training; employment status; details about current
occupation.
Details about respondent´s steady extra-marital partner:
common household; distribution of household chores; age; general
education, vocational training; employment status; details about current
occupation.
Details about respondent´s parents: general education of father and
mother; father´s occupation.
Composition of household: size of household; number of persons older
than 17 in household (reduced size of household); household income; type
of dwelling.
Details about household members: relation to respondent;
gender; age; marital status.
Details about children not living in the household: gender, age.

11.) Data on the interview (paradata): length of interview, date of interview;
frequency of corrections of the interviewer; presence of other persons
during interview (presence of spouse, partner, children, members of the
family, other persons); interference of other persons in the course of
the interview; reliability of information from respondent; reachability
of respondent; details about respondent´s residential building; ISSP
participation. Data on the interviewer: gender, age, general education,
identification of interviewer, experience as interviewer, number of
attempts to contact respondent.

12.) Environment II (ISSP): attitudes towards the role of private
business, government intervention and the role of science;
postmaterialism; evaluation of science, environmental protection, and
ecological problems; opinions on risks, causes for, and consequences of
pollution and on interdependencies; confidence in information on
environmental issues from different sources; participation in activities
relevant to environmental issues; nature is sacred; forms of belief in
God.

13.) Social inequality III (ISSP): most important prerequisites for
success in society; attitudes towards the welfare state and towards
social differences; self-assessment of social class and classification
on a top-bottom- scale; estimation of average earnings in occupational
groups and estimation of appropriate earnings; social justice;
information about social position of parents and general education of
mother.

14.) Added value: Inglehart-index; family typology, classification
of households (according to Porst and Funk); International Standard
Classification of Occupations (ISCO 1968, 1988); occupational prestige
(according to Treiman); SIOPS (according to Ganzeboom); ISEI (according
to Ganzeboom); magnitude prestige (according to Wegener); occupational
classification (according to Terwey); class position (according to
Goldthorpe); weights.