Family Development in North Rhine-Westphalia (Panel: 3rd Wave 1986)

Training and occupation possibilities from the view of young women.
Questions on raising children, marriage, partnership and family.

Second follow-up survey after a further 2 years.

Topics: employment; hours worked each week; perceived work stress;
occupational prospects of promotion; employment for financial reasons;
detailed information on training as well as about first and current
employment; belonging to a professional group; reasons for change of job;
times of unemployment; attitude to household, family and occupation
(scale); activity during the last three years; date of birth; date of
marriage; date of divorce; time of first marriage; length of first
marriage; living together with a partner; division of decision-making
authority in marriage or partnership; number of children; detailed
information about all children; managing child care; life changes due to
children (scale); problems and help in raising children; significance of
a further child (scale); perceived stress from children; perceived
personal responsibility and that of partner regarding children (scale);
relief from partner in child care; assumed significance of a further
child for partner (scale); division of labor between partners regarding
child care (scale); employment, time worked each week and shift work of
spouse; moves due to change of job of partner; desired number of
children; perceived stress from work in the household; assumed attitude
of partner to marriage, family, children and occupation (scale);
detailed information about division of labor between partners in
household (scale); solidarity of respondent as well as her partner with
the church; school degree of respondent and her partner; number of
rooms and living space in square meters; residential status; owner or
primary renter of house or apartment; amount of rent; the one who pays
the rent; length of time in residence and in city; detailed information
about moves since 18th year of life; willingness to participate in
further surveys.

The following questions were presented to the respondent to be filled
out: income; judgement on partnership (scale); current pregnancy;
sterility; changes in partnership; assumed judgement on partnership
from point of view of partner (scale).

The following additional questions were posed to some spouses or
partners of the respondents: judgement on partnership (scale); assumed
judgement on partnership from point of view of partner (scale);
employment; income; desired number of children; date of birth; number
of siblings; willingness to take paternity leave; attitude to
household, family, children and occupation (scale); share in work in
the household (scale); assumed attitude of partner to occupation and
family (scale); changes in partnership; relief of partner after a
birth; perceived responsibility regarding children and family (scale);
time expended for child care; distribution of the work of child care
between partners (scale).

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview;
intervention of these persons in the course of the interview;
reliability and willingness of respondent to cooperate; length of
interview; date of interview.