ALLBUS/GGSS 1994 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 1994)

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 question module of ALLBUS/GGSS 1994 is "Social Inequality and the Welfare State," with questions on objective indicators of unequal living conditions as well as subjective perceptions and evaluations of inequality. Further topics include political attitudes, attitudes towards the process of German unification, and attitudes towards and contacts with foreigners living in Germany. The survey also fielded the SSP module "Family and Changing Gender Roles II."<br>1.) Economic situations and occupational life: assessments of
present and future economic situation in Germany and in respondent´s own
federal state; assessment of current and future personal economic
situation; education and occupation; fear of unemployment or loss of
business; length of personal unemployment; social origin; evaluation of
personal occupational success and expectations for the future; attitude
towards personal occupation; fear of unemployment or loss of own
business.

2.) Social inequality and the welfare state: self-assessment of social
class; fair share in standard of living; evaluation of personal
occupational success, comparison with father´s position; attitudes
towards the German economic system and evaluation of welfare state
measures; realization of personal ideas of success; evaluation of
appropriate education opportunities for everyone; attitudes towards
social differences and conditions for success; opinions on personal
social security; stance on extension or reduction in social services;
opinion on level of income in personal household.

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

4.) Political attitudes: 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; confidence in public institutions and
organizations (public health service, federal constitutional court,
federal parliament (Bundestag), city or municipal administration, armed
forces, churches, judiciary, television, newspapers, universities,
federal government, trade unions, police, employment offices, retirement
insurance, employers´ association, European Community Commission,
European Parliament, European Court of Justice); party-sympathy-scales
for the CDU, SPD, CSU, F.D.P., The Greens (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen),
Republicans (Republikaner), PDS; opinion on the performance of the
political system in Germany (political support).

5.) Attitudes relating to the process of German re-unification:
attitude towards the demand for increased willingness to make sacrifices
in the West and more patience in the East; more advantages for East or
West through re-unification; the future in the East depends on the
willingness of eastern Germans to make an effort; strangeness of
citizens in the other part of Germany; performance pressure in the new
states; attitude towards dealing with the Stasi-past of individuals;
evaluation of socialism as an idea.

6.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender; month and
year of birth, age; geographical origin and citizenship; migration to
East or West Germany; place of residence (federal state, administrative
region, size of municipality, BIK-type of municipality, Boustedt-type of
municipality) and length of residence; religious denomination, frequency
of church attendance; voting intention (Sonntagsfrage); general
education, vocational training; employment status; details about current
occupation, length of employment, industrial sector, affiliation to
public service, supervisory functions, working hours per week; date of
termination of full- or part-time employment; details about former
occupation; length of unemployment; respondent´s income; marital status.
Details about respondent´s current spouse: general education,
vocational training; employment status; details about current
occupation.
Details about respondent´s steady extra-marital partner: common
household; distribution of household chores; month and year of birth,
age; general education, vocational training; employment status; details
about current occupation.
Details about respondent´s parents: general education and vocational
training of father and mother; father´s occupation.
Composition of household: size of household; household income; type of
dwelling.
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), other union, political party).

7.) Data on the interview (paradata): beginning and end of interview; date of
interview; length of interview; presence of other people during the
interview (presence of spouse, partner, children, relatives, other
persons); willingness of respondent to cooperate. Data on the
interviewer: gender, age, educational level, identification of
interviewer.

8.) Family and changing gender roles II (ISSP): attitude towards
employment of mothers and married women; role distribution of man and
woman in occupation and household; preferred extent of employment for
women during different stages of child raising; attitudes towards
marriage, single-parenting, cohabitation before marriage, and divorce;
the ideal number of children; views on the significance of children;
opinion on separation of spouses with and without children; obedience or
independent thinking as the more important educational goal; employment
of mother during childhood of respondent; current frequency of visits
with one´s mother; personal divorce; living with spouse or other
partner; prior divorce of current partner; previous co-habitation
without subsequent marriage; views on paid maternal leave, financial aid
for working parents, and on abortion; opinion on pre-marital sexual
intercourse, sexual intercourse between minors, marital infidelity, and
homosexuality of adults; experience with sexual harassment at the
workplace; management of income in marriage or partnership; allocation
of duties in the household; division of gainful employment and principal
earner in partnership; gainful employment in various phases of child
raising; general attitudes towards employment.

9.) Added value: Inglehart-index; family typology, classification
of private households (according to Porst and Funk); International
Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO 1968, 1988); occupational
prestige (according to Treiman); magnitude prestige (according to
Wegener); occupational meta-classification (according to Terwey); class
position (according to Goldthorpe); weights.