Change and Development of Ways of Family Life - 2nd Wave (Survey of Families)

Current situation in life and ways of life. Social relations and
courses of life. Topics: 1. Children: number of siblings; position in
sibling sequence; sex of siblings; growing up with both parents or with
single-parent; divorce or other reasons for separation of parents;
social origins; educational goals; detailed information for every child
on date of birth, sex, status, place of stay, school attendance,
attendance at a kindergarten, vocational training and child care after
school; desired number of children; living together with a partner;
living separately; year of separation; right to support or personal
obligation to pay; regularity of payments deposited. 2. Partner
biography: steady partnership; detailed information for every
partnership regarding: time of getting to know each other, start of
actual partnership, start of living together in a residence, number of
common children, age difference of partners, original marital status
and school degree of partner, differences in nationality, date of
marriage and continued existence of partner relation as well as point
in time and manner of termination of the relation; difficulties in the
partnership; thoughts of divorce; conversation with friends or partner
as well as a lawyer about a possible divorce. 3. Questions on social
net: person to confide in; persons with whom meals are regularly eaten
and to whom emotional relations exist; persons from whom financial
support is received or to whom it is given; leisure partner; sex, type
of relation, distance to residence and frequency of contact with
persons of one´s social surroundings; relation with friends and
acquaintances (scale); number of living grandparents. 4. School,
training and employment: year of starting school; year of school
degree; time of first taking up an occupational activity and complete
specification of professional career; current employment status; number
of hours each week; temporary employment; work orientation (scale);
raising children and employment; information on number of siblings,
number of grandchildren, number of grandparents, employment,
professional position and number of hours each week of spouse; division
of tasks in the partnership; attitude to marriage (scale); estimated
weekly effort for activities for family and household; attitude to
children (scale); religiousness; postmaterialism; residential status;
inheritance or purchase of real estate; gift received to acquire real
estate; monthly rent or housing costs; floor space; number of rooms;
number of children´s rooms; age at leaving parental home; length of
residence; state of parental home; 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; members of household as recipients of government
transfer payments such as earnings-related unemployment benefit,
housing benefit or child benefit; household income; regular savings
amount; annual construction savings amount; having debts and amount of
debt; right to support for children; regularity of payments to child;
utilization of social aid and counseling measures; looking after
persons in need of care in household; family relation with these
persons and weekly number of hours expended for this; support in care
by social services or further persons; care activities besides
housekeeping and employment; self-assessment of condition of health.