Families in Germany and the Impact of the Corona Pandemic, Wave 1

The study Families in Germany and the Impact of the Corona Pandemic was conducted by USUMA on behalf of the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung. During the survey period 24.08.2020 to 26.09.2020, 1. 005 persons aged 18 and over in private households in Germany (N=501 with persons living in Germany who did not have parental authority for at least one minor child at the time of the survey and N=504 with persons living in Germany with parental authority for at least one minor child) were interviewed by telephone (CATI) on the following topics: Family situation, division of housework, perceived real situation, satisfaction with areas of life, effects and changes due to the Corona crisis, Sunday question, home office, sociodemographics, sociodemographics of partner. Respondents were selected using a multi-stage stratified random sample from the ADM sample frames for landline and mobile numbers (dual-frame sample in the ratio 50% mobile and 50% landline). The present study is the first wave.<br>Child´s attendance at daycare before the Corona crisis; division of household chores between the respondent and partner in terms of cooking meals, grocery shopping, minor repairs in the house/apartment, laundry, tax matters, cleaning the house/apartment, doing homework with the children, taking care of the children when they are sick, childcare during daycare/school closure during the Corona crisis; perceived real own situation (I am successful in my job, take care of the household, take care of my appearance, do something special in my free time, am happy, do voluntary work, cook meals for my family, my family lives healthily/ is happy, children perform well at school, live in a happy relationship); satisfaction with different areas of life (with current life, housing situation, work situation, family situation, with childcare sharing during daycare/school closure in Corona crisis, and with current partnership); Corona crisis: Long-term expected personal impact of the Corona crisis; extent of long-term changes due to the Corona crisis in the following areas: Friendships, free time, time management, daily tasks, work situation, job prospects, childcare, support for children and partnership; assessment of these changes in the aforementioned areas rather as good or rather as bad; time pressure has rather increased, rather decreased or has not changed compared to before the Corona crisis.

Demography: sex; age; marital status; stable partnership; sex of partner; living with partner in a common household; children; number of children; information on children: Age; joint child, child of respondent, child of partner; child lives in joint household; party preference in the next federal election (Sunday question); education; employment situation; professional position; short-time work; in home office for individual days or completely through Corona; currently still in home office through Corona; religious affiliation; frequency of attendance at religious services; migration background of respondent or one parent; federal state; city size; number of mobile phone numbers through which respondent can be reached; number of landline phone numbers; household size; number of children under 18 in the household.

Information on the partner: education; employment situation or situation if not employed; through Corona individual days or completely in the home office; currently still in the home office through Corona.

Additionally coded were: Respondent ID; weighting factors; categorisation of legal guardian; categorisation of situation; split groups.