Single Persons 1989

Living conditions and ideas of single persons on questions of
structuring life in the GDR.
Topics: Tenancy; size of residence; number of members of household;
basic features of residence; character of residential building;
satisfaction with basic features and size of residence, cleanliness
and extent of environmental pollution in residential area, cultural
events, shopping opportunities, city or local traffic, service
facilities, financial situation; desire for change of place of
residence; full-time or part-time employment; shift work; treatment
as single by leaders and colleagues; satisfaction with occupation,
collective climate, readiness and ability of the collective to
achieve; stress from work and household; transfer of social
activities; preferred shift work; moral orientations (scale); group
of persons to carry out various household jobs (scale); feeling of
dependence on help and support from others; general satisfaction with
oneself; interest in politics, history, medicine, psychology,
technology, travels and tourism, sociability; marital status;
judgement on divorce from today's perspective; intent to establish a
steady partner relation; desired type of partner relation; stand on
minor children of partner; characteristics of future partner (scale);
number of close friends; friends in the "Klub der Alleinstehenden"
{club of single persons}; reasons for joining the "Klub der
Alleinstehenden"; satisfaction with oneself (scale); self-assessment
regarding personality characteristics; stress from work day; group of
persons for organization of leisure time; interest in contacts with
others; assessment of the opportunities to find contacts (scale);
residence furnishing and possession of weekend property or bungalow
or dacha; frequency of trips abroad; number of children; support
from one's own grown-up children and type of support; member in mass
organizations such as DTSB, Kulturbund, VKSK, artist association,
DFD; significance of sexual relations and contacts; stand on sexual
abstinence of single persons; satisfaction with sexual situation;
stand on partnership without sexual relation; stand on sexuality in
advanced age.