Welfare survey

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The welfare survey is a representative survey of the German population to measure individual welfare and quality of life.

The welfare survey was carried out in 1978, 1980, 1984 and 1988 in West Germany and in 1993 and 1998 for the whole of Germany. The sample size up to 1988 was between 2000 and 2500 people. In 1990 a survey of 735 people in the area of ​​the new federal states was carried out as a basis for comparison. The surveys in 1993 and 1998 comprised around 2000 people in West and 1000 people in East Germany. The survey method is the interview. A set of core questions was repeated over the entire period and additional thematic questions were asked for each round.

subjects

The surveys covered the following subject areas:

  1. Living
  2. Household, marriage and family
  3. Social networks
  4. health
  5. education
  6. Gainful employment
  7. income
  8. Social participation and leisure
  9. environment
  10. Crime, public and social security
  11. Global measures of subjective well-being
  12. Attitudes and values

literature

  • Wolfgang Glatzer and Wolfgang Zapf (eds.): Quality of life in the Federal Republic. Objective living conditions and subjective well-being , Frankfurt / New York 1984.
  • Roland Habich and Heinz-Herbert Noll : Objective living conditions and subjective well-being in a united Germany , in: Statistisches Bundesamt (Hrsg.): Datenreport 1999. Series of publications by the Federal Center for Political Education, Bonn 2000 ( online ).
  • Wolfgang Zapf and Roland Habich (eds.): Welfare Development in United Germany , Berlin 1996.

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