Welfare Survey 1984

Topics: 1. Objective situation in the various areas of life: housing situation; residence furnishing; size of residence; living together with a partner; members of household and size of household; vocational training and employment career; employment and mobility; reasons for non-employment of housewives; information on further employment intents; paid and unpaid side jobs; frequency of unemployment since 1970; judgement on financial security in case of unemployment; assessment of probability of occupational change in the next few years (scale); fear of loss of job; condition of health; visits to the doctor; use of medication; number of relatives in nursing homes and frequency of visits; personal disability; happiest as well as most unfortunate experience in life; friends outside of the family; financial situation; occupation with children; frequency of maintenance work and repair work on car and in residence; carrying out repairs in household by members of household or companies; assistance for or from relatives, neighbors and friends; evaluation of assistance recieved. 2.

Subjective well-being and perceived quality of life: marital satisfaction; understanding between partners; satisfaction with family life, management of household, division of labor in household, leisure time, health, social security, standard of living, public safety, environmental protection, one´s own training, job, household income, church and status as housewife (scale); general work satisfaction and contentment with life (scale); contentment with life and satisfaction with income in comparison over time; feeling of happiness; loneliness; importance of areas of life; work orientation; postmaterialism; disturbance of well-being through differences of opinion; intensity of disputes; conflict partner; importance of selected areas of life for well-being and satisfaction (scale); current greatest concerns and difficulties as well as perceived possibilities of overcoming; importance of job characteristics; perceived stress from employment or housework (scale); distribution of daily housework among members of household; attitude to welfare state or more personal responsibility (scale); attitude to abortion and treatment of terminally ill; attitude to child-raising support for pensions of mothers; perceived differences of opinion between social conflict groups. 3.