Living Spaces - Public Opinion Survey of the BBR 1995

Housing and residential status. Residential area and social structure. Mobility and economic situation. Employment. Election decision and participation.

Topics: 1. Housing and residential status: size of the place of residence (degree of urbanisation); location; duration of residence; satisfaction with the place of residence; duration of residence in the apartment; distance before moving into the current apartment; previous place of residence; former federal state (old FRG, former GDR or outside the current FRG); move into the current apartment before 1991, 1991 or later; residential status of the previous apartment; living space of the previous apartment; number of rooms of the previous apartment; size of household of the previous apartment; reasons for moving; most important reason for moving; move out of the previous apartment was from the parental home; residential status of the current apartment; one or more households in the house; residence entitlement certificate required; owner of the apartment; rent; rent including costs for heating and hot water; amount of the lump sum for heating and hot water (or for heating and hot water separately); average costs for heating and hot water and payment period; rent includes modernisation levy; amount of modernisation levy in total or per sqm; adequacy of rental costs; withdrawal of housing allowance; amount of monthly housing allowance; living space; number of rooms; assessment of apartment size; apartment furnishing; apartment equipment meets needs; year of construction of the house; assessment of the structural condition of the house; satisfaction with the apartment.

2. Residential area and social structure: satisfaction with the immediate residential environment; social structure: foreigners in the residential environment; proportion of foreigners in their own residential area compared to other residential areas; foreigners have been living in the residential area or have recently moved in; new relocated foreigners are predominantly ethnic German immigrants, refugees or have been living in Germany for some time; relationship between foreigners and Germans in the residential environment; attitude towards the spatial separation of Germans and foreigners; personal contacts to foreigners in the family, at work, in the neighbourhood or in the neighbourhood. among friends and acquaintances; assessment of assistance for foreigners (simple entry aids, more extensive integration measures or renouncement of such assistance).

3. Mobility: intention to move; reasons for moving; most important reason for moving; preference of moving (target area); assessment of current and future personal economic situation; change in personal economic situation for one year.

4. Employment: employment status; job security.

5. Election decision and participation: eligibility to vote in the last fedral election; participation in the last federal election and election decision (second vote); party preference (Sunday question) or party most likely to be considered.

Demography: sex: age (month of birth and year of birth); highest school leaving certificate or targeted school leaving certificate; age at school leaving certificate; vocational education or training certificate; current or former employment; full-time or part-time employment; current or last employment position; current or last employment activity; employment in the public sector; marital status; cohabitation with a partner; self-assessment of class; religious denomination or respectively Religious community; closeness to the church; assessment of the living environment; household size; net income of the respondent; number of children in the household and age of these children; number of persons in the household over 18 years of German citizenship; number of persons in the household who contribute to the household income; number of persons employed in the household; net household income; place of residence before 1989; German citizenship; telephone connection in the household.

Interviewer rating: housing type; residential area type; interview with the respondent alone or presence of third parties during the interview; intervention of third parties in the interview; responsiveness of the respondent; reliability of the respondent´s data; sex, age and education of the interviewer; number of interviews on point; number of telephone and personal contacts and contact attempts; interview in the old or the new federal states.

Additionally coded was: ID BBSR; split; respondent ID; federal state; government district; city size (political community size, BIK/Boustedt); interview date; interview duration; interviewer ID; weighting factors.