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Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) - Kumulation 1980-2023
ALLBUS is a biennial trend survey based on random samples of the German population. Established in 1980, its mission is to monitor attitudes, behavior, and social change in Germany. Each ALLBUS cross-sectional survey consists of one or two main question modules covering changing topics, a range of supplementary questions and a core module providing detailed demographic information. Additionally, data on the interview and the interviewers are provided as well. Key topics generally follow a 10-year replication cycle, many individual indicators and item batteries are replicated at shorter intervals. The ALLBUS Cumulation assembles all the time series in the ALLBUS program, i.e., the data set contains data for all questions that have been asked in at least two of the 23 ALLBUS surveys conducted to date. ALLBUScompact is the freely available ALLBUS scientific-use-file. For data protection reasons, the data on migration history, age, occupation, and income are only included in coarsened form starting with ALLBUS/GGSS 2023. Moreover, as of 2023, data allowing regional breakdowns other than the differentiation between East and West Germany can no longer be included this data set, i.e. only the regional data in the variable eastwest is continued after 2021. The ALLBUS data set includes the full range of anonymized demographic data and additional regional variables. This data set is available subject to the conclusion of a personal user agreement.
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (2026). Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) - Kumulation 1980-2023 (ZA8834; Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14704
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