ALLBUS 1990 (ZA No. 1800)

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Data Collection Period:

• March 1990 to May 1990

Scientific Council:

• Klaus Allerbeck, University of Frankfurt;
• Karl Ulrich Mayer, Max Planck Institute for Educational Research, Berlin;
• Walter Müller, University of Mannheim;
• Karl Dieter Opp, University of Hamburg;
• Franz Urban Pappi, University of Mannheim;
• Erwin K. Scheuch, University of Cologne;
• Rolf Ziegler, University of Munich

Data Collector:

• INFAS, Bonn

Contents:

Social monitoring of trends in attitudes, behavior, and societal change in the Federal Republic of Germany. The main topics in 1990 are:

1. Attitudes towards the government, government measures, administration, and social conflicts
2. Attitudes towards and contacts with foreign guest-workers (Gastarbeiter)
3. Questions on AIDS (HIV)
4. Deviant behavior and sanctions
5. Other topics
6. ALLBUS-Demography
7. Data on the interview
8. Role of government II (ISSP 1990)
9. Derived indices

Topics:

1. Attitudes towards the government, government measures, administration, and social conflicts: opinion on the behavior of administration towards the citizen; opinion on minor offences; attitude towards politicians; perceived conflicts of interest between selected groups in the Federal Republic; assessments of the present and future economic situation in Germany; assessment of present and future personal economic situation; evaluation of social justice; attitude towards increased social services versus tax cuts, official regulations, and administration; attitude towards the unification of the two German states; attitude towards nuclear energy, towards the death penalty for terrorist acts of violence, and towards more public services under private ownership.
2. Attitudes towards and contacts with foreign guest-workers (Gastarbeiter): attitudinal scale; contacts with foreign guest-workers within the family, at work, in the neighborhood, or among friends; advantages and disadvantages of the presence of foreign guest-workers in the FRG; attitude towards immigrants; immigration restrictions for east Germans and for eastern European ethnic Germans moving to the Federal Republic, asylum seekers and labor from EC or non-EC countries; advantages and disadvantages from the influx of eastern European ethnic Germans and East Germans.
3. Questions on AIDS (HIV): knowledge about AIDS; attitude towards higher health insurance fees for those infected with AIDS; attitude towards dismissal of infected employees and towards entry refusal for foreigners infected with AIDS; support of a central registration requirement; estimate of personal risk of infection; personal protective measures against infection; personal acquaintance with people infected with AIDS.
4. Deviant behavior and sanctions: opinion on various deviant acts with reference to their reprehensibility and the degree to which they deserve persecution (two split versions using different formulations); questions about the legality of deviant activities; readiness to report various offences; assessment of probability of being caught committing various crimes; own victimization; respect of the law; lowering the crime rate through severer punishment; the most important purpose of sanctions; self-reported deviant behavior; probability of engaging in various deviant acts in the future.
5. Other topics: importance of life aspects; trust in fellow men and politicians, social pessimism and orientation towards the future (anomia); friends (ego-centered networks), including information on kinship, occupational position, party preference of and mutual familiarity between friends or acquaintances; attitudes towards abortion; political interest; postmaterialism (importance of law and order, fighting rising prices, free expression of opinions, and influence on governmental decisions); political participation; self-placement on a left-right continuum; self-assessment of social class; party preference; voting behavior.
6. ALLBUS-Demography:
   • Details about the respondent: gender; month and year of birth, age; length of residence in the FRG; geographical origin; place of residence (federal state, administrative region, size of municipality, Boustedt-type of municipality); religious denomination, frequency of church attendance; voting intention (Sonntagsfrage); vote in last elections; general education, vocational training; employment status; details about current occupation, industrial sector, affiliation to public service, supervisory functions, working hours per week; date of termination of full- or part-time employment; length of unemployment; principal source of livelihood; details about former occupation; respondent's income; marital status; possession of driver's license.
   • Details about respondent's current spouse: age; general education, vocational training; employment status; details about current and former occupation respectively; date of termination of full- or part-time employment.
   • Details about respondent's former spouse: details about current occupation.
   • Details about respondent's steady partner: common household; month and year of birth, age; general education, vocational training; employment status; details about current and former occupation respectively.
   • Details about respondent's parents: general education and vocational training of father and mother; 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, telephone.
   • Details about household members: relation to respondent; gender; month and year of birth, age; marital status.
   • Respondent's current memberships (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund - DGB (German Confederation of Trade Unions), Deutsche Angestelltengewerkschaft - DAG (German Salaried Employees' Trade Union), Christlicher Gewerkschaftsbund - CGB (Christian Federation of Trade Unions), Union Leitender Angestellter - ULA (Association of Executive Staff), Deutscher Beamtenbund - DBB (German Civil Service Federation), Deutscher Bauernverband (German Farmers Association), trade association, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie - BDI (Federation of German Industries), association of a liberal profession, other occupational association; choral society, sports club, leisure activity club, local citizens or community club, other social association, association of German expellees or refugees, charitable association, religious/church organization, youth or student organization, political party, citizens' initiative, other club or association).
7. Data on the interview: presence of other people during the interview and their relationship to the respondent; intervention of other people in the course of the interview; length of interview; date of interview; gender of interviewer; age of interviewer; identification of interviewer.
8. Role of government II (ISSP): attitude towards the observance of laws; attitude towards selected forms of protest against the government; attitude towards freedom of speech for revolutionaries and ethnocentrists; attitude towards police intervention in the private sphere to prevent crimes; attitude towards a miscarriage of justice; attitude on revolutionaries, ethnocentrists, and protesters; attitude towards tax fairness and towards income redistribution by the government; views of government intervention in the economy; attitude towards change in government spending for selected political tasks; priority for fighting inflation or creating more jobs; opinion on the power of trade unions, business and industry, and the government; attitude towards trade unions; desired degree of government intervention in selected areas of the economy; opinions on the responsibility of the government regarding various political tasks; equality of opportunity for both sexes in various areas; attitude towards improvement of the position of women by the government.
9. Derived indices: Inglehart-index; family typology, classification of private households (according to Porst and Funk); International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO 1968); occupational prestige (according to Treiman); magnitude prestige (according to Wegener); occupational meta-classification (according to Terwey); class position (according to Goldthorpe); weights.

Total Population and Sample:

• Universe sampled: Federal Republic of Germany (including West Berlin)
• Household sample: Multi-stage random sample (ADM-Mastersample) of private households addressing all individuals with German citizenship who were at least 18 years of age by the day of the interview.

Method of Data Collection:

• Personal interview with standardized questionnaire (PAPI - Paper and Pencil Interviewing)
• additional self-completion questionnaire (drop off) for ISSP

Primary Sampling Units / Sample-Points:

• 630 electoral districts (sampling procedure analogous to ADM but using Infas’s own base)

Response Rate:

• 60.4 %

Dataset:

Further Notes:

• Some of the questions from ALLBUS 1990 were only used with half of the respondents ("split procedure"). Thus the total number of variables was increased (compare V3, V4-V31 (split 1), V32-V69 (split 2), V136-V161 (split 1) and V162-V193 (split 2).
• A second version of this data set (307 variables) with a shortened demography module is additionally available as ALLBUScompact 1990 (ZA No. 3714).

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