Courses of Life and Social Change: Access to Occupation in Employment Crisis (Life History Study LV-West III)

Detailed information and judgements on courses of life in the areas
family, training and employment.

Topics: 1. Family origin of target person: social origin; information
on natural mother, natural father or stepparents and foster parents as
well as on siblings; information on courses of life of siblings.

2. Residential history and places of stay: residence description and
reasons for change; supplemental questions on household structure and
mobility.

3. School and occupational biography: school and occupational
training; political education.

4. Employment history, occupation and work life: positions and
activities of employment life; times of no contribution to retirement
program; gaps in employment; side jobs; occupational further education;
work efforts; honorary activity; hobbies; illness history.

5. Personal family: marriage biography; partner situation; information
on earlier spouse; information on current spouse or companion through
life; information on children.

6. Economic situation: sources of income.

7. Politics and religion:
biography of personal behavior at the polls; behavior at the polls of
parents; interest in politics in parental home; religious upbringing,
leaving the church and religious affiliation.

8. Also encoded were: estimated and actual length of interview; date
of interview; interruption of the interview and reason for
interruption; sex of interviewer; identification of interviewer.