ALLBUS/GGSS 1982 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 1982)

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 1982 is “Religion and Worldviews,” which includes questions about cosmologies (opinions about the existence of a higher reality), views about the meaning of life, and questions about religiosity and religious denomination. Other topics include political attitudes and attitudes towards marriage, family and partnership.<br>1.) Importance of life aspects and job characteristics: family
and children, work and occupation, recreation and free time, friends
and acquaintances, kinship, religion and church, politics and public
life; preferred job characteristics (security, income, responsibility
etc.).

2.) Attitudes towards marriage, family, and partnership: ideal number
of children; importance of different educational goals; desired
characteristics of children; the wife´s role in the family.

3.) Religiousness, cosmology, and church attachment: respondent´s and
spouse´s denomination; former denominational membership; frequency of
attendance to mass and reception of communion; funeral by church;
interest in Christian programs in the media; marriage in church; number
of children and baptism of children; religious education of respondent;
attitude towards charity; self-assessment of religiousness; belief in
God resp. the existence of a higher being; attitude towards the meaning
of life.

4.) Political attitudes: political interest; postmaterialism
(importance of law and order, fighting rising prices, free expression
of opinions, and influence on governmental decisions); attitude towards
government spending for defense and social tasks; self-placement on a
left-right continuum; party affiliation and voting intention
(Sonntagsfrage); acceptance of democratic norms; estimation of the
situation of common people and the interest politicians take in their
problems.

5.) Other topics: assessments of the present and future economic
situation in Germany; assessment of present and future personal
economic situation; fair share in standard of living; self-assessment
of social class; perception of conflicts of interest between social
groups in the FRG; attitude towards abortion; social pessimism and
orientation towards the future (anomia); sense of security in the
immediate vicinity and farther away (fear of crime).

6.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender; month and
year of birth, age; place of residence (federal state, size of
municipality, Boustedt-type of municipality, administrative region);
religious denomination, frequency of church attendance; voting
intention (Sonntagsfrage); general education, vocational training;
employment status; details about current occupation: length of
employment, industrial sector, supervisory functions, size of company;
date of termination of full- or part-time employment; details about
former occupation; length of unemployment; principal source of
livelihood; respondent´s income; marital status; marital biography.

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

Details about respondent´s parents: general education and occupation
of father.

Composition of household: size of household, number of persons older
than 17 in household (reduced household size); number of children;
German citizenship, household income; type of dwelling, telephone.
Details about household members: relation to respondent; gender; year
of birth, age; marital status; income.

Details about children not living in the household: age. Year of birth
and year of death of deceased children.

Respondent´s current memberships (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB,
blue-collar union), Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft (DAG,
white-collar union), Deutscher Beamtenbund (DBB, public service union),
farmer´s association, trade association, Bundesverband der Deutschen
Industrie (BDI, association of German industry), 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 additional persons at the
interview and their relation to the respondent; interferences of other
persons in the interview; respondent´s willingness to cooperate;
estimation of respondent´s reliability; length of interview, date of
interview; number of sample point; classification of community size;
number of interviews per sample point; coder identification.

8.) Added value: International Standard Classification of
Occupations (ISCO 1968); occupational prestige (according to Treiman).