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Life in the GDR and Eastern Germany 1990 - 1998

With "Life in the GDR/Eastern Germany" a representative series of studies on subjective states of mind was started in 1990 and continued until 1998 in Eastern Germany. In 1990 and 1991 the Life study was carried out by the  Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Institute for Sociology and Social Policy (ISS), Berlin. After 1991 the study was carried on by the Empirical-Methodological Working Group at the Social Science Research Institute Berlin- Brandenburg (SFZ)

The thematic survey programme of this series of investigation is oriented towards the central areas of peoples life: preservation of the natural world, delivery of social security, leisure, work, health, family, life with children, qualifications and further education, housing, wages. 

  • ZA Qbase GDR/NFS - specific searches in question texts of codebooks and/or questionnaires of all studies conducted in the GDR and the New Federal States

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Study 

Year of data collection

Respondents

Variables

PDF questionnaire

6873

Life in the GDR 1990  1990 1528 350 Questionnaire

6314

Life in Eastern Germany '91 1991 1466 279 Questionnaire

6346

Life 1992 1992 1516 309 Questionnaire

6600

Life in Eastern Germany '93 1993 1548 285 Questionnaire

6601

Life in Eastern Germany 1994 1994 1503 334 Questionnaire

6602

Life in Eastern Germany 1995 1995 1506 341 Questionnaire

6667

Life in Eastern Germany 1996 1996 1880 488 Questionnaire

6665

Change of subjective attitudes of the people in Eastern Germany  1996 * 1996 1523 299 Questionnaire

6668

Life in Eastern Germany 1997 1997 1457 349 Questionnaire

6669

Life in Eastern Germany 1998 1998 1336 361 Questionnaire

6666

Changes in subjective attitudes in Eastern Germany from 1990 to 1996 

1990-1996 Cumulative file

7574 277 Codebook

* In 1996 a parallel study was carried out in the context of a project funded by the German Research Council (DFG). 

Publications

  • Denken und Handeln in der Krise - Die DDR nach der "Wende", Akademie Verlag 1991
  • Sozialreport 1990, 1992, 1995 1997, Sozialreport - Sonderheft 1+2 1996 - Daten und Fakten zur sozialen Lage in den neuen Bundesländern,  Sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (Overview and order at the Social Science Research Institute Berlin- Brandenburg (SFZ))


© GESIS Evelyn Brislinger 29.1.2001