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Städtedaten (67 Großstädte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
Gemeinde, Wohnumgebung, Stadtleben und Landleben
Inanspruchnahme sozialer Dienstleistungen
Wirtschaftspolitik, öffentliche Ausgaben und Einnahmen
DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES)
Specific social services: use and availability
Economic policy, public expenditure and revenue
Social and economic figures for 67 large West German cities. The data aggregated at city level have been collected for most topics over several years, but not necessarily over the entire reference time period. Topics: 1. Situation of the city: surface area of the city; fringe location in the Federal Republic. 2. Residential population: total residential population; German and foreign residential population. 3. Population movement:live births; deaths; influx; departures; birth rate; death rate; population shifts; divorce rate; migration rate; illegitimate births. 4. Education figures: school degrees; occupational degrees; university degrees. 5. Wage and income: number of taxpayers in the various tax classes as well as municipality income tax revenue in the respective classes; calculated income figures, such as e.g. inequality of income distribution, mean income or mean wage of employees as well as standard deviation of these figures; GINI index. 6. Gross domestic product and gross product: gross product altogether; gross product organized according to area of business; gross domestic product; employees in the economic sectors. 7. Taxes and debts: debt per resident; income tax and business tax to which the municipality is entitled; municipality tax potential and indicators for municipality economic strength. 8. Debt repayment and management expenditures: debt repayment, interest expenditures, management expenditures and personnel expenditures. 9. From the ´BUNTE´ City Test of 1979 based on 100 respondents per city averages of satisfaction were calculated. satisfaction with: central location of the city, the number of green areas, historical buildings, the number of high-rises, the variety of the citizens, openness to the world, the dialect spoken, the sociability, the density of the traffic network, the OEPNV prices {local public passenger transport}, the supply of public transportation, provision with culture, the selection for consumers, the climate, clean air, noise pollution, the leisure selection, real estate prices, the supply of residences, one´s own payment, the job market selection, the distance from work, the number of one´s friends, contact opportunities, receptiveness of the neighbors, local recreational areas, sport opportunities and the selection of further education possibilities. 10. Traffic and economy: airport and Intercity connection; number of kilometers of subway available, kilometers of streetcar, and kilometers of bus lines per resident; car rate; index of traffic quality; commuters; property prices; prices for one´s own home; purchasing power. 11. Crime: recorded total crime and classification according to armed robbery, theft from living-rooms, of automobiles as well as from motor vehicles, robberies and purse snatching; classification according to young or adult suspects with these crimes; crime stress figures. 12. Welfare: welfare recipients and social expenditures; proportion of welfare recipients in the total population and classification according to German and foreign recipients; aid with livelihood; expenditures according to the youth welfare law; kindergarten openings; culture expenditures per resident. 13. Foreigners: proportion of foreigners in the residential population. 14. Students: number of German students and total number of students; proportion of students in the residential population. 15. Unemployed: unemployment rate; unemployed according to employment office districts and employment office departments. 16. Places of work: workers employed in companies, organized according to area of business. 17. Government employees: full-time, part-time and total government employees of federal government, states and municipalities as well as differentiated according to workers, employees, civil servants and judges. 18. Employees covered by social security according to education and branch of economy: proportion of various education levels in the individual branches of the economy.
Forschungsstelle Vergleichende Sozialforschung, Universitaet Hamburg; Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung, Universitaet Koeln
Friedrichs, J. (1993). City Data (67 Large Cities in the Federal Republic of Germany) (ZA2331; Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2331
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