Marriage and Family (1986)

Attitude to questions of raising children, education, marriage and
family. Judgement on the occupational situation and the relationship
between generations.

Topics: 1. Basic questions on marriage and family: meaning of family;
ideal number of children and desire for children; reasons against
further children; attitude to childless marriage; assessment of
significance for development policy of a reduction in birth rate;
appropriate measures against decreasing birthrates and assumed reasons
for the decrease in births; adequate preparation of young people for
marriage and family; basic conditions of a marriage; attitude to
divorce; evaluation of measures for family policy.

2. Family life and family interaction: attitude to family; reasons for
arguments in one´s family; person to confide in with problems;
occupation with the children; researching one´s own family history;
magazines and public advice centers as possible advisers for help with
life.

3. Dominance or partnership: agreement between the spouses and reasons
for differences of opinion; role distribution or dominating person in
the marriage; equal rights and duties of the partners; adapting to the
spouse; role distribution or dominance in raising children;
conversations with partner about problems at work.

4. Education questions: education style and problems with education;
possible help with education problems; type of advice centers used;
judgement on and attitude to advice centers; attitude to bad school
report cards and supervision of school work; desired occupation for the
children; attitude to sex education; desired development possibilities
for the children; judgement on the generation conflict.

5. Achievement orientation and education: attitude to education and
assumed causes for inadequate education; judgement on the school as
preparation for employment; desired studies for the children; general
moral orientation.

6. Leisure time: leisure desires; reduction in leisure time from
household and family; actual and desired activities on Sunday; vacation
activities and vacation hindrances; behavior going out; evening
activities and significance of television.

7. Relatives, friendship and neighborhood: contacts with friends and
acquaintances; neighbors´ willingness to help; place of residence of
parents.

8. Occupation and occupation stress: effects of occupation on family
life; wish to quit or begin employment; interest in return to work and
reasons for the desire for employment; attitude to the job of housewife
or role as mother; work orientation.

9. Miscellaneous: self-assessment of social class and class
consciousness; attitude to the abortion regulation; sources of
political information.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; age and number of children; year
of marriage; share of support of household; religious denomination;
school education; occupation; employment in the civil service;
employment; number of persons with their own income in household; size
of household; composition of household; respondent is head of
household; characteristics of head of household; self-assessment of
social class and class-consciousness; party preference and party
inclination; religiousness; membership in clubs, associations and
parties; contribution payments; housing situation and residential
status; size of residence; desired residence change; possession of
durable economic goods; living together with partner; age of spouse.

Also encoded was: form of housing; type of city; living in new
construction area; city size; state; identification of interviewer; ZIP
(postal) code; district code.