Living Spaces - Public Opinion Survey of the BBR 1994

Housing and residential status. Residential area and social structure. Mobility and economic situation. Employment. Election decision and participation.

Topics: 1. Housing and residential status: size of place (degree of urbanisation); location; duration of living at the place of residence; satisfaction with the place of residence; duration of living in the apartment; distance before moving into the current apartment; previous place of residence; previous location; status of the previous apartment; move out of the previous apartment was move out of the parental home; status of the current apartment; one household or more households in the house; residence permit required; owner of the apartment; rent amount; rent including costs for heating and hot water; amount of lump sum for heating and hot water (or for heating and hot water separately); average costs for heating and hot water and payment period; rent includes modernisation levy; amount of modernisation levy in total or per sqm; adequacy of rental costs; receipt of housing allowance; amount of monthly housing allowance; living space; number of rooms; assessment of apartment size; apartment equipment; apartment equipment meets needs; year of construction of the house; assessment of the structural condition of the house; satisfaction with the apartment.

2. Residential area and social structure: satisfaction with the immediate residential environment; satisfaction with the environmental conditions in the residential environment; frequency of selected environmental impacts in the residential area; walking distance to selected facilities (e.g. public transport stops, shopping facilities, doctors, kindergarten, primary school, etc.).); social structure: foreigners in the living environment; attitude towards the spatial separation of Germans and foreigners; personal contacts to foreigners in the family, at work, in the neighbourhood or among friends and acquaintances; opinion on the cultural budget.

3. Mobility: intention to move; reasons for the intention to move; most important reason for moving; preference of moving (target area); preference for old or new federal states; assessment of current and future personal economic situation; change in personal economic situation since one year.

4. Employment: employment status; job security.

5. Election decision and participation: eligibility to vote in the last Federal election; participation in the last Federal election and election decision (second vote).

Demography: gender: age (month of birth and year of birth); highest school leaving certificate or targeted school leaving certificate; age at school leaving certificate; vocational education or training certificate; current or former employment; full-time or part-time employment; current or last employment position; current or last employment activity; employment in the public sector; marital status; cohabitation with a partner; self-assessment of class; religious denomination or respectively Religious community; closeness to the church; household size; net income of the respondent; number of children in the household and age of these children; number of persons in the household aged 18 years and over with German citizenship; number of persons in the household who contribute to the household income; number of persons employed in the household; household net income; telephone connection in the household.

Interviewer rating: residential house type; residential area type.

Additionally coded was: ID BBSR; split; respondent ID; interview date; interview duration; weighting factors.