Sexual conduct of Men and Women in the Federal Republic of Germany 1990

Attitude to AIDS and sexual conduct.

Topics: 1. Oral survey: attitude to health precautions and ability to
influence one´s own health, center of control (scale); number of
marriages up to now and firm partnerships; age in first firm
partnership and first marriage; number, sex and length of current firm
partnerships; common household with partner; frequency of meeting with
partner and number of firm partners of one´s partner; knowledge about
the illness AIDS; self-classification of knowledge about the illness;
causes for the illness; knowledge about infection and communication of
the illness; knowledge of someone infected with AIDS; classification of
the risk of infection with selected situations in daily life and with
sexual conduct; assessment of the possibility of AIDS infection of an
unborn child during pregnancy; knowledge of AIDS risk groups; assumed
possibility of recovery and cure for AIDS; estimate of death rate with
AIDS illness; measures of AIDS patients to protect against infection;
personal risk of infection and currently perceived as well as expected
risk of infection at place of residence; concern for AIDS infection;
behavioral changes as protection against infection; most important
preventive measures; behavioral changes conducted oneself as well as
determined among friends; perceived certainty of being able to avoid
the risk of infection through behavioral changes; interest in an AIDS
test and knowledge about the place where such a test can be conducted;
interest in the test result; assumed spreading of AIDS in Germany and
estimated number of AIDS patients; contact fears regarding AIDS
patients; perceived threat from environmental dangers and AIDS;
institution responsible to eliminate the AIDS dangers; ability to
contain AIDS and possible means to limit further spread; most important
sources of information about AIDS; conversations about AIDS with
relatives and family members; information about AIDS from the media;
media usage; religiousness; self-classification of social class.

Interviewer rating: credibility of respondent.

Also encoded were: length of interview; city size; sex of interviewer.

2. Written survey (part to be filled out):

a) contraception: methods of contraception used by person interviewed
as well as his partner; contraception method to avoid venereal diseases;
knowledge about use of condoms; source of supply for condoms; distance
from this source of supply; attitude to use of condoms (scale).

b) first relations: age at first sexual intercourse and sex of sexual
partners up to now; spouse as first sexual partner or number of sexual
partners before first firm partnership; totals and sex of sexual
partners up to now; last sexual intercourse.

c) relations in the last 12 months: extra-partner sexual intercourse;
toleration of extra-marital sexual intercourse by partner; sex of sexual
partner; sex for gifts (prostitution); use of condoms in prostitution;
unsuccessful uses of condoms; vacation or business trips.

Relations in the last four weeks: frequency of sexual intercourse with
partner; condom use; frequency of extra-marital sexual intercourse in
the last four weeks; sexual partner from another firm partnership and
assumptions about further sexual contacts of this sexual partner;
condom use.

Familiarity of venereal diseases and personal infection with a
venereal disease at all as well as in the last 12 months; measures to
protect partner from an infection; information of the partner about
personal infection; knowledge about methods to protect against venereal
diseases; blood transfusion received in the last 5 years; place of
blood transfusion.

Use of drugs: users of drugs in one´s circle of friends; personal use
of drugs; injecting drugs in presence of others; use of needle oneself
or by a partner; use of used needles; frequency of sexual intercourse
with drug addicts.

Drinking habits, use of alcohol: place and frequency of drinking
alcohol; duration of drinking; sexual intercourse with personal partner
as well as other persons in connection with use of alcohol.

Sexual practices: sexual practices exercised or exercised in the last
four weeks and use of condoms in this.