Women Report - Brandenburg 1991

Social situation of women and social change in the state of
Brandenburg during political and economic transformation.
Topics: Hopes and fears; importance of selected areas of life such
as work, partnership, education, social security, health, housing
situation; general contentment with life; satisfaction with
environmental situation and environmental conduct (Skalen); extent to
which informed about the system of social security, cultural and
leisure time selection, problems with children, qualification and
education opportunities, healthful way of life, rights, partner
relations, work, environmental protection, establishment of wages and
prices, housing market, product selection; stand on changed legal
system; trust in trade union, organizations, lawyer, court in legal
problems; persons one can turn to for financial aid; satisfaction
with selected areas of life (scale); expectations of family and
friends of one's conduct; preferred leisure activities (scale);
changes in organization of leisure time and its evaluation;
prerequisites for organization of leisure time and evaluation; party
membership or party sympathies; attitude to political participation;
activities to improve personal situation in life; self-assessment of
condition of health; activities to promote health; desire for
children - earlier and today under influence of the political turning
point; occupational changes in the last year and their evaluation;
assessment of primary causes for unemployment; management activity;
time worked each week; shift work or flextime; occupation
characteristics; current occupational qualification; number of
marriages; satisfaction with individual aspects of the partnership
(scale); changes in family climate in the last year; number of births
and years of birth; financial opportunity of satisfying needs; number
of children in household; price and quality comparisons in shopping;
preferred dealing with money; acquisitions since currency union and
planned expenditures; religiousness; source of income (scale);
tenancy; amount of rent; desire for condominium or one's own house;
residential furnishings; persons responsible for child care and
housework; average time expended for housework per day; attitude to
employment of women; conditions for positive stand on employment of
women; subjective condition; preferred areas of life since the
turning point such as money, leisure time, religion; sexuality and
eroticism; environment; preference for family or occupation.