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Social Problems of Retirement and Adjustment to Retirement

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1481 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1481
Abstract: Social problems of workers due to their retirement. Topics: point in time of retirement; age of spouse; living together with others; size of household; residential status; neighborhood contacts; number of children; number of married children; number of grandchild and siblings; distance to siblings, children and close persons; point in time and frequency of contacts with relatives and acquaintances; information on getting to know friends and acquaintances; information on personal education or education of spouse; employment in the civil service; personal professional position or professional p ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 05.1977 - 12.1978
Date(s) of Data Collection: 05.1977 - 12.1978, Trier area: May - June 1987 Saarbruecken/Neunkirchen area: the fall of 1978 - the end of 1978
Geographic coverage: Rhineland-Palatinate (DE-RP), Trier | Saarland (DE-SL), Saarbrücken | Saarland (DE-SL), Neunkirchen and vicinity
Universe: Persons who retired in the last two years before the survey or would retire from professional life in the two years following the time of survey
Number of Units: 1463
Sampling Procedure: Census
Mode of Data Collection: Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: Fachbereich IV, Abteilung Soziologie, Universitaet Trier
Analysis System(s): SPSS
Number of Variables: 416
Notes: The respondents were obtained by writing to all companies with more than 10 employees in the areas of the Trier and Saarbruecken chambers of commerce (address list of the districts) as well as all government offices in the research area. The 1463 respondents are grouped as follows: first wave in the Trier area: 590 respondents, of which 125 were s ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Brothun, Mechthild - Fachbereich IV, Abteilung Soziologie, Universität Trier | Eirmbter, Willy H. - Fachbereich IV, Abteilung Soziologie, Universität Trier
Publication year: 1986
DOI: 10.4232/1.1481
Study number: ZA1481
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1481
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Reference publications

Publications: Brothun, Mechthild; Eirmbter, Willy H.: Soziale Probleme der Pensionierung und Anpassung an den Ruhestand: Forschungsbericht. Trier: Universität 1983.
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Brothun, Mechthild, & Eirmbter, Willy H. (1986). Social Problems of Retirement and Adjustment to Retirement. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1481 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1481.

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