Demographic Change

Attitudes towards demographic change. Topics: questions about life at the place of residence: What pleases well and what doesn´t; questions about life in the country or in the city; assessment of infrastructure at the place of residence; consent to different statements on life at the place of residence; assessment of the development and future prospects at the place of residence; assessment of the place of residence according to different areas (for families, job offers, for the elderly, pollution, for younger people); attitudes towards aging society; assessment of living conditions at home, also compared to other regions in Germany; assessment of the consequences of demographic change; assessment of measures to respond to the effects of demographic change; sufficient measures of the state and of the residential municipality to cope with the effects of demographic change; satisfaction with one´s own economic situation; optimism.

Demography: sex; age; household size; number of persons aged 18 and older and of children in the household; highest eductional degree; employed; employment status; self-assessment of social stratum; size of municipality. Additonally coded was: number; weight; BIK-Gemeindegrößenklasse; politische Gemeindegrößenklasse; federal state.