Search in ALLBUS Codebooks

The searchable ALLBUS Codebooks contain the original German questionnaire, the unweighted frequencies in the dataset, as well as the separate percentage counts for the old and new German states since 1991.
For an overview of the searchable information view our sample page.

Important Notice

• As of 1991 the ALLBUS sample covers the population of the re-unified Germany. Respondents from the area of the new federal states are oversampled so that analysts can obtain a more detailed picture of this portion of the population. This has to be taken into account when analyzing the population in total. While the separate percentage counts for East and West can be interpreted immediately, the over-all percentage counts have to be weighted using the east-west weight provided. Otherwise the data for the whole of Germany will simply not be representative.
  Note also that from 1991 onwards the sample includes non-German respondents.
• Publications based on these codebooks should cite ALLBUS as source and should follow the bibliographic citation rules.
• All codebooks and datasets can be ordered from ZA.