Saxonian longitudinal study - wave 33, 2022
GESIS, Cologne. ZA7842 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14147
Abstract: The Saxonian longitudinal study is a social science longitudinal study. It was begun in 1987 and examines the change in political attitudes of young adults in the new federal states of the former East Germany. Since the 16th wave (2002), the topic of unemployment and health has been intensively studied. Another new focus is on questions of partnership and personality. The present study was conducted in 2022 and represents the 33st wave.
Content: 1. Political attitudes, life in the GDR: opinion on the unification of GDR and FRG; more dividing vs. more similarities between East Germans and West Germans; estimated number of years until East/West alignment, until East Germans and West Germans have grown together into a real community and until own income is 100% of income in the West; sense of ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 13.09.2022 - 31.12.2022
Geographic coverage: Leipzig (DE-SN-LEJ) | Chemnitz (DE-SN-CHE)
Universe: All pupils who attended grade 8 of a polytechnic secondary school (POS) in the first survey wave (1987) (ZA6213) from the former districts of Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt in the GDR (birth cohorts 1972/1973). The sample population for the follow-up survey consists of all respondents of the initial survey who have agreed to participate in future surv ... more Number of Units: 319
Sampling Procedure: • Probability;
Temporal Research Design: Longitudinal: Panel Analysis Unit: Individual Mode of Data Collection: • Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)
• Self-administered questionnaire: Paper;
Data Collector: Forschungsstelle Sozialanalysen Leipzig
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus der Technischen Universität Dresden
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 360
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Berth, Hendrik - Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität Dresden | Brähler, Elmar - Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Mainz | Förster, Peter - Forschungsstelle Sozialanalysen Leipzig | Stöbel-Richter, Yv ... more Publication year: 2023
DOI: 10.4232/1.14147
Study number: ZA7842
Publisher: GESIS
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2023-07-04, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14147
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Berth, Hendrik; Brähler, Elmar; Zenger, Markus; Stöbel-Richter, Ive (Hg.) (2020):
30 Jahre ostdeutsche Transformation : Sozialwissenschaftliche Ergebnisse und Perspektiven der Sächsischen Längsschnittstudie.
Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag | Berth, Hendrik; Brähler, Elmar; Zenger, Markus; Stöbel-Richter, Ive (Hg.) (2015):
Gesichter der ostdeutschen Tra ... more Study group: Sächsische Längsschnittstudien |
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