ALLBUS/GGSS 1990 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 1990)

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 1990 is "Sanctions and Deviant Behavior” with, among others, questions on the moral evaluation of various behaviors, the acceptance of norms, self-reported deviant behavior, and the expected probability of sanctions. Other topics include ego-centered friendship networks and political attitudes. Also included is the ISSP module "Role of Government II."<br>1.) Attitudes towards the government, government measures,
administration, and social conflicts: opinion on the behavior of
administration towards the citizen; opinion on minor offenses; attitude
towards politicians; perceived conflicts of interest between selected
groups in the Federal Republic; assessments of the present and future
economic situation in Germany; assessment of present and future personal
economic situation; evaluation of social justice; attitude towards
increased social services versus tax cuts, official regulations, and
administration; attitude towards the unification of the two German
states; attitude towards nuclear energy, towards the death penalty for
terrorist acts of violence, and towards more public services under
private ownership.

2.) Attitudes towards and contacts with foreign guest-workers
(Gastarbeiter): scale of attitudes towards foreigners; contacts with
foreign guest-workers within the family, at work, in the neighborhood,
or among friends; advantages and disadvantages of the presence of
foreign guest-workers in the FRG; attitude towards immigrants;
immigration restrictions for east Germans and for eastern European
ethnic Germans moving to the Federal Republic, asylum seekers and
labor from EC or non-EC countries; advantages and disadvantages from
the influx of eastern European ethnic Germans and East Germans.

3.) Questions on AIDS (HIV): knowledge about AIDS; attitude towards
higher health insurance fees for those infected with AIDS; attitude
towards dismissal of infected employees and towards entry refusal for
foreigners infected with AIDS; support of a central registration
requirement; estimate of personal risk of infection; personal
protective measures against infection; personal acquaintance with
people infected with AIDS.

4.) Deviant behavior and sanctions: opinion on various deviant acts
with reference to their reprehensibility and the degree to which they
deserve prosecution (two split versions using different formulations);
questions about the legality of deviant activities; readiness to report
various offenses; assessment of probability of being caught committing
various crimes; own victimization; respect of the law; lowering the
crime rate through severer punishment; the most important purpose of
sanctions; self-reported deviant behavior; probability of engaging in
various deviant acts in the future.

5.) Other topics: importance of life aspects; trust in fellow men and
politicians, social pessimism and orientation towards the future
(anomia); friends (ego-centered networks), including information on
kinship, occupational position, party preference of and mutual
familiarity between friends or acquaintances; attitudes towards
abortion; political interest; postmaterialism (importance of law and
order, fighting rising prices, free expression of opinions, and
influence on governmental decisions); political participation;
self-placement on a left-right continuum; self-assessment of social
class; party preference; voting behavior.

6.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender; month and
year of birth, age; length of residence in the FRG; geographical
origin; place of residence (federal state, administrative region, size
of municipality, Boustedt-type of municipality); religious
denomination, frequency of church attendance; voting intention
(Sonntagsfrage); vote in last elections; general education, vocational
training; employment status; details about current occupation,
industrial sector, affiliation to public service, supervisory
functions, working hours per week; date of termination of full- or
part-time employment; length of unemployment; principal source of
livelihood; details about former occupation; respondent´s income;
marital status; possession of driver´s license.

Details about respondent´s current spouse: age; general education,
vocational training; employment status; details about current and
former occupation respectively; date of termination of full- or
part-time employment.

Details about respondent´s former spouse: details about current
occupation.

Details about respondent´s steady extra-marital partner: common
household; month and year of birth, age; general education, vocational
training; employment status; details about current and former
occupation respectively.

Details about respondent´s parents: general education and vocational
training of father and mother; father´s occupation.

Composition of household: size of household; number of persons older
than 17 in household (reduced size of household); 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).

7.) Data on the interview (paradata): presence of other people during the
interview and their relationship to the respondent; intervention of
other people in the course of the interview; length of interview; date
of interview; gender of interviewer; age of interviewer; identification
of interviewer.

8.) Role of government II (ISSP): attitude towards the observance of
laws; attitude towards selected forms of protest against the
government; attitude towards freedom of speech for revolutionaries and
ethnocentrists; attitude towards police intervention in the private
sphere to prevent crimes; attitude towards a miscarriage of justice;
attitude on revolutionaries, ethnocentrists, and protesters; attitude
towards tax fairness and towards income redistribution by the
government; views of government intervention in the economy; attitude
towards change in government spending for selected political tasks;
priority for fighting inflation or creating more jobs; opinion on the
power of trade unions, business and industry, and the government;
attitude towards trade unions; desired degree of government
intervention in selected areas of the economy; opinions on the
responsibility of the government regarding various political tasks;
equality of opportunity for both sexes in various areas; attitude
towards improvement of the position of women by the government.

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