Living Spaces - Public Opinion Survey of the BBR 1988

Residential area, current housing and residential status. Mobility. Employment.

Topics: 1. Residential area, current housing and residential status: type of residential house; city size (degree of urbanisation); residential area; duration of residence; satisfaction with the place of residence; duration of residence in the current apartment; number of rooms; residential status; satisfaction with the apartment, the immediate residential environment and the environmental conditions in the residential environment; expected change in environmental problems in the residential environment; frequency of environmental pollution in the immediate residential environment (railway noise, traffic noise, aircraft noise, industrial and commercial noise, odours, fumes and dust formation).

2. Mobility: intention to move; preference of moving (target area); assessment of the current and future personal economic situation as well as the economic situation in the FRG and in the municipality of residence; expected change in unemployment figures.

3. Employment: employment status; assessment of job security; opinion on new technologies (lead to more unemployment vs. create new job opportunities and new jobs in the long term); experience with new technologies; desire for flexibility of working hours or for suspension of employment; maximum acceptable everyday commute in minutes; willingness to adapt to an external job; everyday commute in minutes; means of transport used for the everyday commute.

Unemployed people: opinion on new technologies (lead to more unemployment vs. create new job opportunities and new jobs in the long term); previous employment; year of termination of previous employment; reasons for giving up employment; intention to (re-)take up employment; intended full-time or part-time employment; maximum acceptable everyday commute in minutes; willingness to adapt to an external job; possible to take up work within two weeks; reasons for not taking up work within two weeks.

Demography: sex: age (month of birth and year of birth); highest school leaving certificate or targeted school leaving certificate; age at school leaving certificate; vocational education and training certificate; employment; employment status; full-time or part-time employment; previous employment; former or current employment position; marital status; cohabitation with a partner; self-assessment of class affiliation; denomination; closeness to the church; frequency of attending church; eligibility to vote in the last federal election 1987; voter participation in the last federal election and voting decision (second vote); eligibility to vote in the last election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1985; participation in the last election to the Berlin House of Representatives and voting decision (second vote); net income of the respondent; household size; number of children in the household and age of these children; number of persons in the household over 18 years of German citizenship; number of persons in the household who contribute to the household income; household net income; telephone connection in the household.

Interviewer rating: presence of other persons during the interview; intervention of persons present at the interview; willingness of the respondent to cooperate; reliability of the data.

Additionally coded was: BBSR ID; respondent ID; state; government district; political community size (Boustedt); interview date; interview duration; interviewer ID; sex and age of interviewer; weighting factor.