Living Spaces - Public Opinion Survey of the BBR 1989

Housing and residential status. Residential area and social structure. Economic situation. Foreigners in the neighborhood. Mobility. Employment. Voting decision and participation.

Topics: 1. Housing and residential status: type of residential house; city size (degree of urbanisation); duration of residence; satisfaction with the place of residence; duration of living in the apartment; number of rooms; residential status; satisfaction with the apartment.

2. Residential area and social structure: residential area; description of residential environment; preferred residential environment; satisfaction with the place of residence; duration of residence; satisfaction with the immediate residential environment and the environmental conditions in the residential environment; expected change in environmental problems in the residential environment; subjective assessment of the class affiliation of residents in the residential environment; importance of selected living conditions for personal well-being at the place of residence (e.g. employment, infrastructure, housing, schools, clean air, etc.); satisfaction with these living conditions at home.

3. Foreigners: foreigners in the residential environment; estimated proportion of foreigners in the residential environment; attitude towards the spatial separation of Germans and foreigners in a neighbourhood; personal contacts with foreigners.

4. Mobility: intention to move; preference of moving (target area); bond to the place of residence; assessment of the current and future personal economic situation as well as the economic situation in Germany; expected change in unemployment figures; rather advantages or disadvantages for the region due to the internal market.

5. Employment: employment status; assessment of job security; everyday commute in minutes; means of transport used for the everyday commute.

6. Voting decision and participation: eligibility to vote in the last federal election; participation in the last federal election and voting decision (second vote); eligibility to vote in the last election to the Berlin House of Representatives; participation in the last election to the Berlin House of Representatives and voting decision (second vote).

Demography: sex: age (month and year of birth); highest school leaving certificate or targeted school leaving certificate; age at school leaving certificate; years of school education including university education; vocational training or training certificate; marital status; cohabitation with a partner; self-assessment of class affiliation; religious denomination; close relationship to the church; frequency of going to church; net income of the respondent; household size; number of children in the household and age of these children; number of persons in the household over 18 years of German citizenship; number of persons in the household who contribute to the household income; household net income; telephone connection in the household; for the respondent and the partner, the following questions were asked: current or previous employment; employment status; full-time or part-time employment; current or former employment; current or former employment; occupation; current or former employment in the public sector.

Interviewer rating: presence of other persons during the interview; intervention of persons present in the interview; willingness of the respondent to cooperate; reliability of the information; answering of the self-administered questionnaire together with the face-to-face interview or later; filling in the self-administered questionnaire alone or with assistance and type of return.

Additionally coded was: ID BBSR; Interviewer ID; state;government district; city size (political community size, Boustedt); interview date; interview duration; interviewer ID; interviewer sex; interviewer age; weighting factor.