ALLBUScompact/GGSScompact 2021 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 2021)

ALLBUScompact is offered as an alternative to the structurally more
complex full version of ALLBUS. It addresses the needs of newcomers to
data analysis by providing a simplified demography module containing an
easily manageable group of the most important demographic indicators.
All topical question modules not containing sensitive data are retained
as in the ALLBUS full version (scientific use file).

Topics:

1.) Use of media: Frequency and average total time of watching tv,
frequency of watching news programs on public and commercial tv,
frequency of reading a daily newspaper per week, frequency of reading
books / e-books; internet use: frequency and type of device, frequency
of using social media for political information, trustworthiness of
different news sources with regard to crime and public safety.

2.) Social Inequality: Self-assessment of social class, fair share in
standard of living, assessment of access to education, attitudes
towards social inequality and the welfare state.

3.) Ethnocentrism and minorities: Attitude towards the influx of
various groups of immigrants, attitudes towards the foreigners living
in Germany, contacts with foreigners, antisemitic stereotypes and
prejudices, attitudes towards Islam (Islamophobia), perceived risks and
chances with respect to refugees.

4.) Family and gender roles: Attitudes towards working fathers and
mothers, division of labor regarding house and family work., importance
of educational goals.

5.) Values: Work orientations, attitudes towards legalizing abortion,
materialism / postmaterialism (importance of law and order, fighting
rising prices, free expression of opinions and influence on
governmental decisions).

6.) Political attitudes: Pride in being a German, confidence in public
institutions and organizations (public health service, federal
constitutional court, federal parliament (Bundestag), city or municipal
administration, churches, judiciary, television, newspapers,
universities, federal government, the police, political parties,
European Commission, European Parliament); identification with own
community, the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU, preference for
lower taxes or more social spending, stance on extension or reduction
in social services, perceived strength of conflicts between social
groups, political interest, self-placement on left-right continuum,
satisfaction with democracy in Germany, voting intention
(Sonntagsfrage).

7.) Deviant behavior and sanctions: Assessment of adequacy of court
decisions, development of crime rate, moral assessment of deviant acts,
crime-specific desire for sanctions (punitivity), desire to prohibit
specific behaviors, attitude towards the death penalty, self-reported
deviant behavior (past and future), perceived risk of being caught
committing various crimes, victimisation (theft, any crime), respect of
the law (norm), deterring crime through punishment, purpose of
punishment, self-control (Grasmick), fear of crime, feeling of safety
in living environment.

8.) Health: Self-assessment of overall health, physical and mental
health during the last four weeks, acceptance of state powers to
control epidemics.

9.) Religion: Self-assessment of religiousness, denomination,
frequency of church attendance / attending a house of God.

10.) Other topics: Assessment of the present and future economic
situation in Germany, assessment of present and future personal
economic situation, social pessimism and orientation towards the future
(anomia), interpersonal trust, reciprocity, authoritarianism, overall
life satisfaction.

11.) ALLBUS-Demography:
Details about the respondent: age, gender, marital status, citizenship
(nationality), school education, vocational training, employment
status, affiliation to public service, working hours per week (primary
and secondary job), supervisory functions, fear of unemployment, length
of unemployment, status of non-employment, date of termination of
full-time employment, current or former membership in a trade union,
membership in a political party, respondent´s income. Place of
residence (size of municipality), duration of residence (in Germany and
at current place of residence), mobility.

Details about respondent´s current spouse: age, school education,
vocational training, employment status, affiliation to public service,
status of non-employment.

Details about respondent´s steady partner: age, school education,
vocational training, employment status, affiliation to public service,
status of non-employment, common household with respondent.

Details about respondent´s parents: cohabitation with respondent as
adolescent, school education of mother and father, vocational training
of mother and father.

Description of household: size of household, household income, number
of persons older than 17 in household (reduced size of household).

12.) Data on the interview (paradata): Study number, digital object
identifier, release, respondent id, mode of data collection.

13.) Added value: Inglehart-Index, Standard International Occupational
Prestige Scale (SIOPS, according to Ganzeboom), International
Socio-economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI, according to
Ganzeboom), European Socio-Economic Groups (ESeG), International
Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 1997 and 2011, living
arrangement and family situation, transformation weight for analyses on
household level, east-west design weight.