Marriage and Family (1977)

Attitude to child-raising questions, education as well as marriage and
family. Judgement on the occupational situation and relationship
between generations.

Topics: 1. Principle questions on marriage and family: meaning of
family; ideal marriage; desire for children; assessment of the
development-policy significance of the decline in births and attitude
to childless marriage; preparation for marriage and basic family
conditions of a marriage; attitude to divorce.

2. Family life and familial interaction: reasons for disputes in one´s
family; person to confide in with problems; readiness of spouse to
communicate and to listen; occupation with the children; research of
one´s own family history; magazines and public advice centers as
possible advisers for help in life.

3. Dominance or partnership: agreement between spouses and reasons for
possible differences of opinion; role distribution and dominant person
in marriage; willingness of the man to help in household; adaptation to
spouse; role distribution in child-raising.

4. Child-raising questions: child-raising style and problems in
child-raising; possible help with child-raising problems; type of
public advice centers used; judgement on and attitude to advice
centers; attitude to poor school grades and supervision of homework;
desired occupation for son or daughter; attitude to sex education;
desired development opportunities for the children; judgement on the
generation conflict.

5. Achievement orientation and education: attitude to education and
assumed reasons for insufficient education; judgement on the school as
preparation for occupation; desire for the children to go to college;
general moral orientation.

6. Leisure time: leisure wishes; reduction in leisure time through
household and family; actual and desired structuring of Sunday;
structuring of vacation and obstacles for a vacation; readiness to go
out and habits regarding going out; structuring evenings and
significance of television.

7. Relatives, friendship and neighborhood: contacts with friends and
acquaintances, willingness of neighbors to help; place of residence of
parents or parents-in-law.

8. Occupation and occupation stress: effects of occupation on family
life; desire to give up employment; attitude to occupation as housewife
(scale); work satisfaction.

9. Miscellaneous: attitude to the reformed abortion law; tie to a
party; contribution payments; housing situation and property
conditions; size of residence; desired change of residence.

Demography: self-assessment of social class; political interest and
sources of political information; party preference; religiousness;
membership in clubs, associations and parties; age; sex; marital
status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious
denomination; school education; occupation; household income; size of
household; economic area; party identification; state; possession of
durable economic goods.

Also encoded were: form of housing, type of city, residence in new
construction area, city size and sex of interviewer.