Socio-Ecological Conditions of the Integration of Foreign Workers in the Ruhr Area (Germans in Duisburg)

The relationship of the German population to foreign workers.

Topics: religiousness; nationality of spouse; age and number of
children; occupational advancement; duration of unemployment; social
origins; length of company employment; company size; name of company
and area of business; proportion of foreigners at work; number of
German and foreign colleagues in immediate work area; number of private
contacts with German and foreign colleagues; job characteristics
(scale); satisfaction with occupation; association with the term
foreigner relative to nationality; problems due to foreigners; social
distance (scale); perceived social distance of family members and
friends regarding foreigners; importance and realization of material or
immaterial living conditions; preferred measures to secure jobs
(scale); perceived threat to personal living space (scale);
authoritarianism scale; length of residence in Duisburg, in part of
town and in current residence; concepts of an ideal residential area
and actual housing situation; perceived threat to residential area;
ties to the Ruhr area, the city of Duisburg, the part of town and the
residential surroundings; residential status; manner of arranging for
residence; reasons for change of residence and moving into current
residence; amount of rent; desired minimum furnishing of residence;
rent upper limit for a better residence; residence equipped with
sanitary facilities; size of residence; deficiencies or damages in
residence; satisfaction with current residence; number of foreigners in
building and residential surroundings; estimate of proportion of
foreigners in residential population of the city of Duisburg or part of
town; importance and use of selected infrastructure facilities of
residential surroundings and satisfaction with these institutions
(scale); potential reasons for change of residence as well as interest
in moving; readiness to discriminate (scale); hostility to foreigners
(scales); concepts of the future regarding life together between
Germans and foreigners; neighborhood contacts; contacts with friends
and acquaintances; contacts with foreigners; sympathy for foreigners
(scale); importance of selected moral concepts; evaluation of German
and Turkish moral concepts; party preference; party political
preference at municipal level; measures to change the relationship
between Germans and foreigners.

Also encoded was: type of building; age of building; condition of
building; use of building; closeness to near-by industry; aggregate
regional data on structure of total population as well as information
on proportion of foreigners and proportion of Turks in apartment house,
street and part of town.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; vocational
training; occupation; occupational position; household income; size of
household.