ALLBUS/GGSS 2012 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 2012): Supplementary Data Set Occupational Classifications

This supplementary data set contains occupational classifications as well as a number of prestige or status variables that were not yet available on the first release of the main ALLBUS 2012 data set (ZA4614). In addition to this, the data set contains a number of identification variables and weights.

1.) Identification variables: Study number, respondent ID, German citizenship, region of interview.

2.) Occupation and prestige: Respondent´s current occupation – ISCO 1988, SIOPS, ISEI (Ganzeboom), ISCO 2008;
respondent´s last occupation – ISCO 1988, SIOPS, ISEI (Ganzeboom), ISCO 2008;
current spouse – ISCO 1988, SIOPS, ISEI (Ganzeboom), ISCO 2008;
current life partner – ISCO 1988, SIOPS, ISEI (Ganzeboom), ISCO 2008;
father – ISCO 1988, SIOPS, ISEI (Ganzeboom), ISCO 2008;
mother – ISCO 1988, SIOPS, ISEI (Ganzeboom), ISCO 2008;
occupational metaclassification (Terwey) – ISCO 1988, SIOPS, ISEI (Ganzeboom), ISCO 2008.

3.) Weights: transformation weight for analysis at household level, east-west weight for analyses of Germany as a whole.