Dominance and Partnership

Factual distribution of tasks: helping by children and husband in housework; participation in the occupational interests of spouse; responsibility for contacts with relatives and friends. 4. Children in one´s family: number and ages of children; education of children; contemplated attendance at a full-time school; responsibility for care of children and raising children; serious change in the marriage at the birth of a child; increased attention to spouse or children; planned activities after the children are gone. 5.

Decision-making responsibilities and dominance relationships: partner with the better ability to assert oneself with differences of opinion before or in marriage; conflicts between spouses and children; decision-making responsibility about amount of household money, larger and smaller acquisitions, completion of contracts, occupation questions and raising children; punishment of the children; decisions about choice of evening television program; differences in amount of pocket-money between the spouses. 6.

Conflict points and conflict solution in the marriage: views on conflicts in the marriage; conduct with conflicts; last discussion about marriage questions; unsolved problems in the marriage; satisfaction or desire for change of distribution of tasks in the marriage. 7. Isolation attempts: type and frequency of activities without spouse; desire for vacation without spouse; thoughts of divorce; most important cause for a divorce; first or second marriage. 8.

Miscellaneous: family or government as bearer of child-raising tasks; political interest; frequency of overtime and activities after quitting time; company size; television habits and reading habits; tenancy; social origins and contact with parents; age at leaving parental home; local residency; membership in clubs and organizations; membership in a trade union and participation in its events; readiness for membership in trade unions; party preference and party identification; personal election participation at the last Federal Parliament election; payment of wealth tax; scales: dominance and traditionalism.

Demography: political interest; social origins; membership in clubs und organizations; membership in a trade union and participation in their events; party preference and party identification; age (classified); sex; number of children; ages of children (classified); age und number of siblings; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; occupation; employment; household income; size of household; composition of household; head of household; party membership; self-assessment of social class.

Also encoded were: date of birth and city code.