Family Development in North Rhine-Westphalia (Panel: 1st Wave 1981/82)

Training and occupation possiblities from the view of young women.
Questions on raising children, marriage, partnership and family.

Topics: job satisfaction; hours worked each week; perceived job
stress; intent to give up employment; occupational prospects of
promotion; reasons for employment (scale); compatibility of employment
and household; satisfaction with training; detailed information on
training and about activities exercised since school or conclusion of
training; reasons for change of job; belonging to a professionial
group; attitude to household, family and occupation (scale); detailed
information about all children; managing child care; significance of
temporal family planing; probability of birth of a further child;
gender preference for a single child; significant things of life
(scale); date of birth; date of marriage; date of divorce; time of
first marriage; length of first marriage; living together with a
partner; division of decision-making authority in the marriage or
partnership; desired number of children; actual number of children;
perceived stress from children; relief from the partner in child care;
attitude to children (scale); division of labor in the housework;
frequency of contact with relatives, neighbors and friends; help
received in the household from these persons; personal assistance for
these persons; contacts with families with children; social origins;
employment of mother during childhood of respondent; attitude to
employment of mother; satisfaction of mother with her employment;
number of siblings; relationship of parents to one another; living
together with parents or parents-in-law; perceived stress from work in
the household; attitude to family and partnership (scale), employment,
time worked each week and shift work of spouse; closeness of respondent
as well as partner with the church; number of rooms and living space in
square meters; residential status; amount of rent; length of time in
residence and in city; earlier place of residence and place of
residence during childhood; frequency of moving; significance of a
further child (scale), educational goals and living conditions fair for
children (scale); exhaustion after work; willingness to participate in
further surveys; consent with storing address for purposes of
re-interview.

The following questions were presented for the respondents to fill
out: judgement on current financial situation and expected future
developments; income; current pregnancy; use of contraceptives;
miscarriages and abortions; death of children; sterility; conversations
with partner about contraceptives; judgement on the partnership
(scale).

The following additional questions were posed to some spouses or
partners of the respondents: judgement of the partnership (scale);
significant things and goals in life (scale); income and judgement on
career chances; desired number of children; gender preference for a
single child; share in the work in the household; attitude to
household, family, children and occupation (scale); date of birth;
number of siblings.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview;
intervention of these persons in the course of the interview;
reliability and willingness of respondent to cooperate; length of
interview; date of interview.