LV-West II T: The Between-Wars Generation and...
Detailed information and judgements on courses of life in the areas family, education and employment.
Topics:
1. Family origin of target person: social origin; information on natural mother, natural father or stepparents and foster parents as well as on siblings; information on courses of life of siblings.
2. Residential history and places of stay: residence description and reasons for change; supplemental questions on household structure and mobility.
3. School and occupational biography: school and occupational training.
4. Employment history, occupation and work life: positions and activities of employment life; times of no contribution to retirement program; gaps in employment; side jobs; occupational further education; work efforts; memberships; illness history.
5. Personal family: marriage biography; partner situation; information on earlier spouse; information on current spouse or companion through life; information on children.
6. Economic situation: assets; income; pension situation.
7. Politics and religion: biography of personal behavior at the polls; behavior at the polls of parents; interest in politics in parental home; religious upbringing, leaving the church and religious affiliation.
8. Present activities; interests and needs; strain from interview.
9. Also encoded were: estimated length of interview; problems in conducting the interview; reasons for interruption.
Dataset is available at https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/sdesc2.asp?no=2647&search=LV-West%20&search2=&DB=d&tab=0¬abs=&nf=1&af=&ll=10 doi:10.4232/1.2646
- https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/download.asp?id=47636 (Questionnaire)
- https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/download.asp?id=46253 (Codebook)
- https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/download.asp?id=47637 (technical report)
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Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | unknown |
| License | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Type | data |
| Version | 1 |
| DOI | |
| Publication Date | 2015 |
| Availability | OnSite |
| Geographic Area (free) | West-Germany |
| Temporal Coverage (free) | 11.1987 - 08.1988 |
| Unit Type | Individual |
| Number of Units | 1005 |
| Sampled Universe | Germans, born from 1919 to 1921 |
| Number of Variables | |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.2646 |
| Last updated | June 26, 2015 |
| Created | June 26, 2015 |
