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Life-Style of Older People (Singularization Study)

Bertram, Hans; Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI), München
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA2790 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2790
Abstract: Life-style of older people. Topics: 1. personal socialization and relation with the children: number of siblings; growing up with both parents or single-parent; school education of parents; agreement of views on religion, politics and marriage with oldest child; preferred educational goals; attitude to children (scale). 2. social network: person to confide in; description of persons of social surroundings; persons with whom one regularly has meals together and to whom emotional relations exist; distance to and sex of reference person; frequency of contact; leisure partner; personal need of h ... more
Topics: Employment | Specific diseases, disorders and medical conditions | Elderly | Family life and marriage | Income, property and investment/saving | Housing

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.1993 - 03.1993
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: Persons living alone and not living alone between the ages of 55 to 79 years
Number of Units: 4130
Sampling Procedure: Quota sample
Mode of Data Collection: Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: Infratest Sozialforschung, Muenchen
Analysis System(s): -
Number of Variables: 595
Notes: The study is part of a greater research project conducted under the designation survey of families. In this connection the survey was entered in a complex database system. From this nine different files of this survey were written, each referring to different data structures (number of cases) (structure, family, attitudes, economice, sample, childr ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Bertram, Hans - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | - Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI), München
Publication year: 1996
DOI: 10.4232/1.2790
Study number: ZA2790
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Research data center: FDZ DJI

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2790
Version history: ... more

Reference publications

Publications: Bertram, Hans (Hrsg.): Das Individuum und seine Familie: Lebensformen, Familienbeziehungen und Lebensereignisse im Erwachsenenalter Opladen: Leske+Budrich 1995. (Deutsches Jugendinstitut Familien-Survey Band 4)
Study group:
Familiensurvey 1988 - 2000 | show all hits of the group
The family survey of DJI mainly focuses on the "variety and change of family patterns, the network structure of families and relatives as well as on the dynamics of partner relationships, of births and growing-up of children and of occupational careers with their influences on familiy life".

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