Change and Development of Ways of Family Life (Cumulated File 1988-1995)

Current life situation and ways of life.
Social relations and courses of life.
Topics:
1. Children:
number of siblings;
sex of siblings;
growing up with both parents or single-parent;
divorce or other reasons for separation of parents;
social origins;
child-raising goals;
number of children;
desired number of children;
living together with a partner;
living separately;
year of separation;
right to support or personal payment obligations;
regularity of payments deposited.
2. Partnership:
steady partnership;
judgement on living together with partner and quality of partnership (scale);
division of decision-making authority in partnership.
3. Questions on social net:
person to confide in;
persons with whom one regularly has meals and to whom emotional relations exist;
persons from whom one receives financial support or whom one supports;
leisure partner;
number of living grandparents.
4. School, training and employment:
year and month of birth;
year of school completion;
time of first taking up occupational activity and
complete information on professional career;
current employment status;
number of hours each week;
temporary work;
work orientation (scale);
child-raising and employment;
information on number of siblings, number of grandchildren,
number of grandparents, employment, occupational position and
number of hours each week of spouse;
division of tasks in partnership;
attitude to marriage (scale);
estimated weekly effort for activities for family and household;
attitude to children (scale);
religious denomination;
religiousness;
postmaterialism;
residential status;
monthly rent or housing costs;
floor space;
number of rooms;
number of children's rooms;
information on infrastructure available in one's residential area and
use of these facilities;
presence and use of facilities for children
in the immediate vicinity of one's residence;
household income;
income sources;
possession of assets;
right to support for children;
regularity of payments;
arrangement for child care;
looking after persons in need of care in the household;
self-assessment of condition of health;
problems occurring in daily life in the family and occupation
and perceived stress from this (scale);
contraception;
person using and deciding about contraception;
marriage duration, number of relatives;
household size;
perceived family;
occupational situation of man and woman.
Additionally there are various indices in the dataset:
family cycle;
family form;
forms of child-raising;
marriage;
children as burden, as benefit;
postmaterialism;
partnership after Featherman;
infrastructure;
distance to various relatives;
income per person.
Also encoded was:
state and district code.