Sexual conduct of Men and Women in the Federal Republic of Germany 1990

Topics: 1. Oral survey: attitude to health precautions and ability to influence one´s own health, center of control (scale); number of marriages up to now and firm partnerships; age in first firm partnership and first marriage; number, sex and length of current firm partnerships; common household with partner; frequency of meeting with partner and number of firm partners of one´s partner; knowledge about the illness AIDS; self-classification of knowledge about the illness; causes for the illness; knowledge about infection and communication of the illness; knowledge of someone infected with AIDS; classification of the risk of infection with selected situations in daily life and with sexual conduct; assessment of the possibility of AIDS infection of an unborn child during pregnancy; knowledge of AIDS risk groups; assumed possibility of recovery and cure for AIDS; estimate of death rate with AIDS illness; measures of AIDS patients to protect against infection; personal risk of infection and currently perceived as well as expected risk of infection at place of residence; concern for AIDS infection; behavioral changes as protection against infection; most important preventive measures; behavioral changes conducted oneself as well as determined among friends; perceived certainty of being able to avoid the risk of infection through behavioral changes; interest in an AIDS test and knowledge about the place where such a test can be conducted; interest in the test result; assumed spreading of AIDS in Germany and estimated number of AIDS patients; contact fears regarding AIDS patients; perceived threat from environmental dangers and AIDS; institution responsible to eliminate the AIDS dangers; ability to contain AIDS and possible means to limit further spread; most important sources of information about AIDS; conversations about AIDS with relatives and family members; information about AIDS from the media; media usage; religiousness; self-classification of social class.

Interviewer rating: credibility of respondent. Also encoded were: length of interview; city size; sex of interviewer. 2. Written survey (part to be filled out): a) contraception: methods of contraception used by person interviewed as well as his partner; contraception method to avoid venereal diseases; knowledge about use of condoms; source of supply for condoms; distance from this source of supply; attitude to use of condoms (scale). b) first relations: age at first sexual intercourse and sex of sexual partners up to now; spouse as first sexual partner or number of sexual partners before first firm partnership; totals and sex of sexual partners up to now; last sexual intercourse. c) relations in the last 12 months: extra-partner sexual intercourse; toleration of extra-marital sexual intercourse by partner; sex of sexual partner; sex for gifts (prostitution); use of condoms in prostitution; unsuccessful uses of condoms; vacation or business trips.