General Population Survey of the Social Sciences

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First survey: 1980
Institutionalization: 1986
Place: Cologne and Mannheim ( GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences )
Address: Research data center ALLBUS
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8.
50667 Cologne
Website: ALLBUS microsite
research data center ALLBUS

The general population survey of the social sciences (ALLBUS) is a national data generation program for social monitoring in the Federal Republic of Germany.

project

The prototype for such a survey program is the “ General Social Survey ” (GSS), which has been carried out regularly in the USA since 1972. Basically, the largest possible group of scientifically interested people should be given inexpensive access to high-quality social science data without them having to use financial resources for collection , data processing and documentation as primary researchers .

execution

In cooperation with a scientific advisory board (ALLBUS committee), ALLBUS has been collecting data on attitudes, behavior and social structure of the population in the Federal Republic of Germany, usually every two years, since 1980. For this purpose, a representative sample of the German population is questioned in personal interviews (approx. 2800 to 3500 respondents). Immediately after the preparation and documentation of the surveys, all interested persons are offered the data sets for analysis.

All ALLBUS variables that are included in the program more than once are accumulated and harmonized in a separate file. The German part of the International Social Survey Program ( ISSP ) has been combined with ALLBUS since 1986 . This results in additional topics for analysis and access to international comparisons.

The ALLBUS research data center at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences , which was newly founded in 2009, offers regulated and user-friendly access to the entire survey program in cooperation with the RatSWD .

subjects

The larger topics of the surveys are repeated cyclically. In addition, however, new topics are also included as required. Topics in ALLBUS (selection):

  • Questions about the economy
Exemplary evaluation of ALLBUS data
  • Deviating behavior and sanction
  • ALLBUS demographics
  • Anomia and fear of crime
  • Interview dates
  • German Association
  • Attitudes to marriage, family and partnership
  • Attitudes to and contacts with authorities
  • Attitudes to abortion
  • free time activities
  • Health and behavior relevant to health
  • Immigrants
  • Media usage
  • National and regional ties
  • National pride
  • Political attitudes and participation
  • Religiousness and Churchism
  • Social inequality and the welfare state
  • Technical progress and computers (digital divide)
  • environment
  • Trust in public institutions and organizations
  • Importance of various areas of life and selected occupational aspects
  • Derived indices and weights

The theoretical references to the topics and information on the implementation of the respective survey are presented in detailed method reports for each ALLBUS survey.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Terwey, Horst Baumann, Michael Blohm: Research data center ALLBUS annual report 2010, reporting period 01.01.2010-31.12.2010 (PDF; 1.5 MB) gesis.org. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Data illustration of cumulative ALLBUS 1980–2010 and ALLBUS 2012: importance of calm and order as a political goal (mentions as the most important or second most important political goal of four summarized) differentiated by place of residence in the old or new federal states (household samples (ALLBUS 1980-1992, 1998) weighted with transformation weight for personal evaluations).
    “Peace and order” as a preferred political goal is one of four items for measuring the so-called post-materialism index according to Ronald Inglehart . See for example: Ronald Inglehart: The Silent Revolution in Europe. Intergenerational Change in Post-Industrial Societies , in: American Political Science Review 65, 1971: 991-1017. For the Inglehart index at ALLBUS, see also Jan Marcus: The influence of survey forms on the post-materialism index , in: Methods, Data, Analyzes (MDA) 3 (2), 2009: 137-167.
  3. ↑ Cf. u. A. Terwey, Michael: General information on the evaluation of ALLBUS data: sample types and weightings, in: Michael Terwey, Arno Bens, Horst Baumann and Stefan Baltzer, electronic data manual ALLBUS 2006, study no. 4500, Cologne: GESIS, 2007: 12-18.

literature

To the general overview

  • Michael Blohm: The general population survey of the social sciences (ALLBUS) . In: Gerd Grözinger and Wenzel Matiaske (eds.): Germany regional. Social science data in the research network . Hampp Verlag, Munich and Mering 2005, pp. 43-55, ISBN 3879889724
  • Michael Braun and Peter Ph. Mohler: The general population survey of the social sciences (ALLBUS). Review and outlook into the nineties . In: ZUMA News . No. 29, 1991, pp. 7-28, ISSN  0944-1670
  • James Allen Davis, Peter Ph. Mohler, and Tom W. Smith: Nationwide General Social Surveys . In: Ingwer Borg and Peter Ph. Mohler (Eds.): Trends and Perspectives in Empirical Social Research . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1994, pp. 17-25, ISBN 3-11-014311-9
  • Karl Ulrich Mayer and Peter Schmidt (eds.): General population survey of the social sciences. Contributions to methodical problems of the ALLBUS 1980 . Campus, Frankfurt a. M. and New York 1984, ISBN 3593332620
  • Tom W. Smith, Jibum Kim, Achim Koch and Alison Park: Social-Science Research and the General Social Surveys . In: ZUMA News . No. 56, 2005, pp. 68-77, ISSN  0944-1670
  • Michael Terwey: ALLBUS: A German General Social Survey . In: Schmoller's yearbook . No. 120, 2000, pp. 151-158, ISSN  0342-1783
  • Michael Terwey: ALLBUS: New offers, review of the services in the archive and a look ahead to ALLBUS 2006 . In: ZA-Information . No. 58, 2006, pp. 61-71, ISSN  0723-5607
  • Martina Wasmer, Evi Scholz, Michael Blohm, Jessica Walter, Regina Jutz: Conception and implementation of the "General Population Survey of the Social Sciences" (ALLBUS) 2010. GESIS Technical Report 2012/12.

From the publication series "Blickpunkt Gesellschaft"

  • Walter Müller, Peter Ph. Mohler, Barbara Erbslöh and Martina Wasmer (eds.): Focus on society. Attitudes and behavior of the German citizens . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3531121707
  • Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt and Martina Wasmer (Eds.): Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes Towards Ethnic Minorities in Post-Reunification Germany . Palgrave Macmillan, New York and Houndmills 2003, ISBN 1-4039-6378-9
  • Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Martina Wasmer and Achim Koch (eds.): Focus on society 7. Social and political change in Germany. Analyzes with ALLBUS data from two decades . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3810039306
  • The ALLBUS bibliography , which can be searched online, contains a comprehensive collection of scientific papers in which ALLBUS data was used. Abstracts give an overview of the content of the individual papers. This collection of bibliographic data available in the CSA's internet to download ready.

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