Codebooks: The
searchable codebooks contain the original German question texts,
unweighted frequencies of the data as well as separate percentage counts
for East and West Germany (from 1991 onwards).
Questionnaires: Searchable ALLBUS-questionnaires
of the individual studies
published since 1980.
Since 1991 the ALLBUS surveys include citizens from the
area of the new federal states. These respondents have been
oversampled so that analysts can obtain
a more detailed picture of this portion of the population. Without
weighting, the total sample is therefore not immediately representative of
the German population. While separate
percentage counts for East and West can be interpreted immediately,
overall percentage counts have to be weighted
using the east-west weight provided in the data.
Note: Since 1991, ALLBUS also includes foreigners living in Germany.
The original collectors of the data and the codebook
producers bear no responsibility for the interpretation of the data.
Publications based on the codebooks should
acknowledge ALLBUS as source by means of bibliographic citations.
