ALLBUS/GGSS 2002 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 2002)

ALLBUS (GGSS - the German General Social Survey) is a biennial trend survey based on random samples of the German population. Established in 1980, its mission is to monitor attitudes, behavior, and social change in Germany. Each ALLBUS cross-sectional survey consists of one or two main question modules covering changing topics, a range of supplementary questions and a core module providing detailed demographic information. Additionally, data on the interview and the interviewers are provided as well. Key topics generally follow a 10-year replication cycle, many individual indicators and item batteries are replicated at shorter intervals.

Since the mid-1980ies ALLBUS also regularly hosts one or two modules of the ISSP (International Social Survey Programme).

The main question modules of ALLBUS/GGSS 2002 are “Religion and Worldview” and “Personal and Collective Value Orientations.” Further topics are, for example, attitudes towards politics and the economy, perception of gender roles, and attitudes towards foreigners living in Germany. Finally, the ISSP modules "Family and Changing Gender Roles III" and "Social Networks II" are also included.<br>1.) Attitudes towards marriage, family, and partnership: family as
prerequisite for happiness; marriage in case of steady partnership or if
child was born.

2.) Personal and collective values: basic personal goals (law and
order, standard of living, power and influence, fantasy and creativity,
security, help marginalized social groups, ability to assert oneself,
satisfaction of personal needs, industry and ambition, tolerance,
political engagement, hedonism, faith in God, occupational achievement,
self-realization); values of an ideal society (industry and achievement,
take responsibility for fellow men; conformity, being self-assured and
critical, laissez-faire, security and prosperity, political
participation, self- realization, religiousness).

3.) Attitudes towards politics and economy: political participation;
party inclination; confidence in public institutions and organizations
(public health service, federal constitutional court, federal parliament
(Bundestag), churches, judiciary, television, newspapers, universities,
federal government, the police, political parties); likelihood of voting
for different political parties; political interest; postmaterialism
(importance of law and order, fighting rising prices, free expression of
opinions, and influence on governmental decisions); self-placement on a
left-right continuum; political support (satisfaction with democracy in
Germany); assessment of the present and future economic situation in
Germany; assessment of present and future personal economic situation.

4.) Attitudes towards and contacts with foreigners living in Germany:
citizenships; scale of attitudes towards foreigners; contacts with
foreigners living in Germany within the family, at work, in the
neighborhood, or among friends.

5.) Religion and world view: the meaning of life,
cosmology, and the belief in Christian God; funeral by church;
self-assessment of religiousness; frequency of meditation; attitude
towards religiousness; religious indifference; thinking about
metaphysical questions; experience with and attitude towards different
forms of belief, parabelief and superstition; religion vs. science;
religious tolerance; belief in God; support for the teaching of Islam in
public schools; attitude towards person with different faiths marrying
into the family; religious doctrines; personal religious revival; sins
and sinning; marriage in church; frequency of church attendance; present
and former denominational membership; affiliation to a non-Christian
religion; frequency of praying; reception of Christian sacraments;
interest in Christian programs in the media; baptism; denominational
membership and frequency of church attendance of children and
respondent´s partner; denominational membership and frequency of church
attendance of parents; religiousness of parents.

6.) Other topics: self-assessment of social class; fair share in
standard of living; trust in fellow men and politicians; social
pessimism and orientation towards the future (anomia); opinion on
various deviant acts with reference to their reprehensibility; national
pride; authoritarianism; volunteering; experience with and attitude
towards survey research.

7.) ALLBUS-Demography: Details about the respondent: gender, month and
year of birth, age; general education, vocational training, employment
status, details about current occupation, affiliation to public service,
supervisory functions, working hours per week, length of unemployment,
details about former occupation, date of termination of full- or
part-time employment; marital status, divorces; geographical origin and
personal mobility, length of residence, citizenships; respondent´s
income; membership in a political party or trade union; voting intention
(Sonntagsfrage), recall of past vote; place of residence (federal state,
administrative region, size of municipality; BIK-type of region).
Details about respondent´s current spouse: age, general education,
vocational training, employment status, details about current
occupation, status of non-employment.
Details about respondent´s steady extra-marital partner: age, general
education, vocational training, employment status, details about current
occupation, status of non-employment.
Details about respondent´s parents: general education, university
education, religious denomination, frequency of church attendance,
religiousness, details about father´s occupation.
Composition of household: size of household, number of persons older
than 17 in household (reduced size of household), household income,
type of dwelling.
Details about household members: relation to respondent, gender, age,
marital status, baptism, religious denomination, frequency of church
attendance.
Details about children not living in the household: gender, age,
baptism, religious denomination, frequency of church attendance.

8.) Data on the interview (paradata): length of interview; date of interview;
frequency of corrections of the interviewer; presence of other persons
during interview (presence of spouse, partner, children, members of the
family, other persons); interference of other persons in the course of
the interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; reliability of
information from respondent; influence of the incentive on willingness
to participate; willingness to participate in panel; reachability of
respondent; details about respondent´s residential building;
participation in additional ISSP-survey. Data on the interviewer:
gender, age, general education, identification of interviewer,
experience as interviewer.

9.) Social relations and support systems (ISSP): frequency of personal
contacts (visits, meetings) and non-personal contacts (by telephone,
mail, fax or e-mail) with parents, siblings and own children; commuting
time for visits to mother; number of contacts with relatives. Number of
close friends at work, in the neighborhood, and in other areas apart
from these; gender of best friend; frequency of personal and
non-personal contacts with this best friend; important traits of close
friends; politics as conversational topic with friends. Involvement in
activities of different groups and organizations (political party, trade
union, church, club, neighborhood group and others); first and second
contact for help with shopping etc. when ill, with financial problems,
or when depressed; help given personally (with shopping, financial
problems, when s.o. is depressed, or is looking for work); how
respondent first heard about current job; opinions on the obligation or
commitment to help; opinion on the state´s responsibility to provide
childcare facilities and to secure citizen´s standard of living;
estimation of personal happiness in life; feeling of overextension;
trust in fellow men; length of residence; influence on local issues and
on politics in general; self-assessment of social class; number of
underage children.

10.) Family and changing gender roles (ISSP): attitude towards
employment of mothers and married women; role distribution of man and
woman in occupation and household; preferred extent of employment for
women during different stages of child raising; attitudes towards
marriage, single-parenting, cohabitation before marriage, and divorce;
views on the significance of children in life; views on paid maternal
leave and on financial aid for working parents; management of income in
marriage or partnership; allocation of duties in the household and in
family matters; principal earner; stress caused by family, work,
household duties; estimation of general personal happiness; satisfaction
with employment situation and family life; employment of mother during
childhood of respondent; gainful employment in various phases of child
raising; self-classification on a top-bottom-scale; partner affiliated
to public service; working hours per week of partner.

11.) Added value: Inglehart-index; family typology, classification
of households (according to Porst and Funk); International Standard
Classification of Occupations (ISCO 1968, 1988); occupational prestige
(according to Treiman); SIOPS (according to Ganzeboom); ISEI (according
to Ganzeboom); magnitude prestige (according to Wegener); occupational
classification (according to Terwey); class position (according to
Goldthorpe); weights.