ALLBUS/GGSS 1992 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 1992)

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 main question module of ALLBUS/GGSS 1992 addresses religion and worldviews and includes questions about cosmologies (opinions about the existence of a higher reality), views about the meaning of life, and questions about religiosity and religious denomination. Other topics include attitudes towards politics and economy, attitudes towards the process of the German reunification, and questions on AIDS (HIV). In addition, the ISSP module "Social Inequality II" is included.<br>1.) Attitudes towards politics and economy: satisfaction with
democracy in the Federal Republic; opinion on performance of the German
political system (political support); satisfaction with the
achievements of the federal and state governments; eligibility to vote,
participation in the past election; recall of past vote; voting
intention (Sonntagsfrage); political interest; postmaterialism
(importance of law and order, fighting rising prices, free expression
of opinions, and influence on governmental decisions); political
participation; self-placement on a left-right continuum; assessments of
the present and future economic situation in Germany and in one´s own
federal state; assessment of personal present and future economic
situation.

2.) Attitudes towards migration and personal migration movements:
attitude towards the influx of eastern European ethnic Germans, asylum
seekers, labor from EC or non-EC countries; citizenship; birth in East
or West Germany; year of moving between eastern and western Germany;
status as immigrant or ethnic German; emigration to another EC country
conceivable; length of residence in present state and at present
location.

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

4.) Attitudes relating to the process of German re-unification: more
advantages for East or West through German unification; the future in
the East depends on the willingness of eastern Germans to make an
effort; attitude towards demand for increased willingness to make
sacrifices in the West and more patience in the East; strangeness of
citizens in the other part of Germany; pressures to work harder in the
East; attitudes towards the Stasi-past of individuals; valuation of
socialism as an idea.

5.) Importance of life aspects and job characteristics: family and
children, work and occupation, free time and recreation, friends and
acquaintances, kinship, religion and church, politics and public life,
neighborhood; preferred job characteristics (security, income,
responsibility, etc.).

6.) Attitudes towards marriage, family, and partnership: attitude
towards family and marriage; attitude towards employment of women and
mothers; desired characteristics of children; educational goals;
attitude towards abortion.

7.) Questions on AIDS (HIV): knowledge about the disease AIDS; sources
of information on AIDS; attitude towards higher health insurance fees
for AIDS-infected people; attitude towards firing infected employees
and towards entry refusal for AIDS-infected foreigners; attitude
towards a central registration requirement; fear of personal infection
and protective measures taken; AIDS-infected people in one´s circle of
friends.

8.) Religioun and world view: the meaning of
life, cosmology, and the belief in Christian God; funeral by church;
self-assessment of religiousness; present and former denominational
membership of respondent and spouse; baptism of children.

9.) Other topics: general trust in fellow men and politicians; social
pessimism and orientation towards the future (anomia); sense of
security in the immediate vicinity and farther away (fear of crime);
opinions on the personal and general burden through environmental
pollution; perceived conflicts in the Federal Republic; fear of
unemployment or loss of own business.

10.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender; month
and year of birth, age; geographical origin and citizenship; migration
to East or West Germany, interest in migrating to East or West Germany
or to another EC country; place of residence (federal state,
administrative region, size of municipality, Boustedt-type of
municipality) and length of residence; religious denomination,
frequency of church attendance; voting intention (Sonntagsfrage), vote
in last election; general education, vocational training; employment
status; details about current occupation, length of employment,
industrial sector, affiliation to public service, supervisory
functions, working hours per week; date of termination of full- or
part-time employment; details about former occupation; length of
unemployment; respondent´s income; marital status.
Details about respondent´s current spouse: cohabitation before
marriage; age; general education, vocational training; employment
status; details about current and former occupation respectively; date
of termination of full- or part-time employment; religious
denomination; church marriage.
Details about respondent´s former spouse: age; details about current
occupation; religious denomination; church marriage.
Details about respondent´s steady extra-marital partner: common
household; month and year of birth, age; general education, vocational
training; employment status; details about current and former
occupation respectively; religious denomination.
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;
number of children; type of dwelling, telephone.
Details about household members: relation to respondent; gender; month
and year of birth, age; marital status.
Respondent´s current memberships (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB,
blue-collar union), Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft (DAG,
white-collar union), Christlicher Gewerkschaftsbund (CGB, Christian
union), Union Leitender Angestellter (ULA, association of managers),
Deutscher Beamtenbund (DBB, public service union), farmer´s
association, trade association, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
(BDI, association of German industry), association of a liberal
profession, other occupational association; choral society, sports
club, leisure activity club, local history or community club, other
social association, association of German expellees or refugees,
charitable association, religious/church organization, youth or student
organization, political party (plus former membership), citizens´
action group, other club or association).

11.) Data on the interview (paradata): presence of respondent in the last four
days prior to personal interview; length of interview; beginning and
end of interview.

12.) Social inequality II (ISSP): fair share in standard of living;
most important prerequisites for success in society; attitude towards
the welfare state and towards social differences; self-classification
on a top-bottom-scale; estimation of average earnings in occupational
groups and estimation of appropriate earnings.

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