ALLBUS/GGSS 1988 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 1988)

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 topic of ALLBUS/GGSS 1988 is “Political Participation and Attitudes toward the Political System,” with questions on political participation (both conventional and unconventional), political socialization and competence, political support, etc. Other topics include attitudes towards and contacts with foreign guest-workers, perceptions of environmental pollution, and questions about AIDS (HIV). Additionally included is the ISSP module "Family and Changing Gender Roles."<br>1.) Attitudes towards marriage, family, and partnership:
family as a prerequisite for happiness; marriage in case of steady
partnership; importance of the family; arrangement of duties in the
household.

2.) Attitudes towards and contacts with foreign guest-workers
(Gastarbeiter): scale of attitudes towards foreigners; contacts with guest-workers within
the family, at work, in the neighborhood, or among friends.

3.) Perception of environmental pollution: estimation of personal and
overall hazard through lead content of petrol, industrial sewage,
industrial fumes, nuclear power plants, traffic noise, and exhaust
fumes.

4.) Political participation: frequency of various political
activities; personal participation or willingness to participate in
selected forms of protest; preferred form of political participation;
respondent´s eligibility to vote and participation in general federal
elections or state elections (Landtagswahl); self-assessment of
political competence.

5.) Attitudes towards the political system: satisfaction with life in
the Federal Republic; feeling of political effectiveness and
representation by politicians; legitimacy of social inequality; various
attitudes towards democracy; satisfaction with democracy and opinion on
the performance of the German political system (political support).

6.) National pride: pride in German institutions and achievements.

7.) Political attitudes: attitude towards social differences in the
Federal Republic; political interest; postmaterialism (importance of
law and order, fighting rising prices, free expression of opinions, and
influence on governmental decisions); self-placement on a left-right
continuum; attitude towards extremists as teachers; attitude towards
the death penalty for terrorists and murderers of children;
self-assessment of social class; recall of past vote; party preference
of parents during youth of respondent.

8.) Questions on AIDS (HIV): knowledge about the disease AIDS;
perceived reports on AIDS in the media; assessment of personal risk of
infection regarding selected forms of contact; expected development of
cases of death caused by AIDS; opinion on the probability of developing
medication against AIDS; attitude towards governmental information and
repressive measures; attitude towards higher health insurance fees for
those infected with AIDS; attitude towards firing infected employees
and towards entry refusal for foreigners infected with AIDS; attitude
towards a central registration requirement; concern about personal AIDS
infection and infection of family members and friends; personal
protective measures and behavioral changes; acquaintance with
AIDS-infected people.

9.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender; month and
year of birth, age; place of residence (federal state, administrative
region, size of municipality, Boustedt-type of municipality); religious
denomination, frequency of church attendance; voting intention
(Sonntagsfrage); currently at school or university, general education,
vocational training; employment status; details about current
occupation, industrial sector, working hours per week; date of
termination of full- or part-time employment; gaps in occupational
biography; details about former occupation; length of unemployment;
desire for employment; principal source of livelihood; respondent´s
income; age when leaving parental home; marital status; marital
biography.

Details about respondent´s current spouse: age; currently at school or
university, general education, vocational training; employment status;
employment status; working hours per week; details about current
occupation; date of termination of full- or part-time employment.

Details about respondent´s former spouse: age; general education,
vocational training; details about current occupation.

Details about respondent´s steady extra-marital partner: length of
relationship; common household; distribution of household chores; month
and year of birth, age; currently at school or university, general
education, vocational training; employment status; details about
current and former occupation respectively; working hours per week.

Details about respondent´s parents: general education and vocational
training of father and mother; father´s occupation; parents still
alive. Composition of household: size of household; number of persons
older than 17 in household (reduced size of household); children;
household income; 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, citizens´ action group, other club or
association).

10.) Data on the interview (paradata): presence of other people during the
interview; intervention of other people in the course of the interview;
willingness of respondent to cooperate; evaluation of respondent´s
reliability; length of interview; date of interview; gender of
interviewer; age of interviewer.

11.) Family and changing gender roles I (ISSP): attitude towards
employment of women; the importance of personal employment; preferred
extent of employment of women during different stages of child raising;
preferred type of child care for working couples; attitude towards
partnership, marriage and wedding; attitude towards single fathers or
mothers; attitude towards a right for homosexual couples to get
married; ideal number of children and opinion on various family sizes;
attitude towards children; opinion on divorce law; preference for
divorce or for continuation of a disturbed marriage; employment of
mother during childhood of respondent; personal divorces.

Married respondents were also asked about: previous divorce of present
spouse; pre-marital cohabitation with partner and beginning of
cohabitation; extent of employment during different phases of child
raising.

12.) Added value: International Standard Classification of
Occupations (ISCO 1968); occupational prestige (according to Treiman);
magnitude prestige (according to Wegener); weights.