Commitment and Marriage

Determinants of the success or failure of a marriage.

Topics: The data set contains surveys on various stages of a
relationship. Originally 1000 couples were interviewed at about the
time of first meeting or engagement, who then were surveyed several
times over a time interval until lasting marriage or divorce. Among
other questions the following were posed: attitudes and information on
sexual conduct from the perspective of both spouses; attitude of the
man and the woman to marriage; difficulties in the marriage;
personality characteristics of the spouses; feeling of happiness;
agreement of spouses; general satisfaction; attitude to children;
attitude to work; age differences of the spouses; circle of friends;
hobbies; length of acquaintance and engagement; reason for marriage;
extra-marital sexual intercourse; judgement on the financial
expenditure practices of spouse; attitude to divorce; religiousness.

Demography: age (classified); marital status; number of children; ages
of children (classified); religious denomination; income; household
income; self-assessment of social class; city size; regional origins;
possession of durable economic goods.