Living Spaces - Public Opinion Survey of the BBR 1990

Housing and residential status. Residential area and social structure. Mobility and economic situation. Employment. Voting decision and participation.

Topics: 1. Housing and residential status: type of residential house; size of place (degree of urbanisation); residential location; duration of residence; satisfaction with the place of residence; duration of residence in the apartment; distance before moving into the current apartment; reason for moving; apartment acquisition (apartment itself sought, received by exchange or by assignment); residential status; weekend house or allotment garden; number of rooms; living space; assessment of apartment size; apartment furnishing; apartment furnishing corresponds to needs; type of modernisation work at own expense; satisfaction with the apartment.

2. Residential area and social structure: satisfaction with the immediate residential environment; assessment of the structural condition of the residential area; changes in the structural condition in recent years; walking distance to selected infrastructure facilities; satisfaction with the environmental conditions in the residential environment; social structure: differences in education, training and income; predominantly small households without children or households with children; duration of residence; foreigners in the residential environment; neighbourly relationship in the residential area; attitude towards the spatial separation of Germans and foreigners.

3. Mobility: intention to move; reason for the intention to move; preference of moving (target area); place of residence; assessment of the current and future personal economic situation.

4. Employment: employment status; assessment of job security.

5. Voting decision and participation: eligibility to vote in the last federal election; participation in the last federal election and voting decision (second vote); eligibility to vote in the last election to the Berlin House of Representatives; participation in the last election to the Berlin House of Representatives and voting decision (second vote).

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; current or former employment; full-time or part-time employment; current or last employment position; current or last employment activity; occupation; marital status; cohabitation with a partner; self-assessment of class affiliation; religious denomination or religion; closeness to the church; frequency of church attendance; 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; net household income; memberships in associations or organisations; telephone connection in the household.

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

Additionally coded was: ID BBSR; respondent ID; state; government district; city size (political community size, Boustedt); interview date; interview duration; interviewer sex; interviewer age; weight.