The "2014 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany, Austria and Switzerland” (2014 Census) is a study on the green open access landscape conducted in the course of a project seminar at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The 2014 Census not only succeeds the "2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany"[1] but enhances it by adding an online survey to the qualitative analysis of the open access repository websites and the automatic validation of its metadata. Like in 2012 the 2014 Census gives insights into the development of open access repositories and current trends in repository design being of substantial use to open access repository operators.

This 2014 Census data set represents the data collected in three different ways:

• qualitative analysis of the open access repository websites
• automatic validation of the metadata via OAI-PMH using the DINI-Validator [2]
• online survey of repository operators

As in 2012 [3] the data set is provided in XLSX as well as in CSV format. The columns represent the criteria and the rows represent the analyzed open access repositories. In the XLSX file the header row gives the definition of each criterion in English and German. In the CSV "content" file the header row is in English short terms. The respective English and German definition can be found in the CSV "readme" file.

[1] Vierkant, P. (2013). 2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding. D-Lib Magazine, 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2013-vierkant

[2] http://oanet.cms.hu-berlin.de/validator/pages/validation_dini.xhtml

[3] Vierkant, Paul; Voigt, Michaela; Dupski, Jens; David, Sammy; Lösch, Mathias (2013): 2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany. figshare.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.677099

Distribution of demographics in the US (n = 476) and German (n = 491) online sample compared to census data from both countries.

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Timeseries of structure and development of the former German Democratic Republic’s population.

The aim of this data-collection is to inform about the population’s structure and development in the former GDR, including East-Berlin, from 1946 to 1989.

Basis of the compilation is the published statistical population overview of the German Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt (hrsg.): Sonderreihe mit Beiträgen für das Gebiet der ehemaligen DDR. Heft 3: Bevölkerungsstatistische Übersichten 1946 bis 1989. Wiesbaden, 1993), completed by census data and scientific publications.

The survey contains details on population and populationstructure (population-size, -growth, density, agegroups, etc.), on natural population movement (birth, decease, marriages, divorces), on spatial population movement (internal migration, migration beyond the borders of the former GDR), and on households.

The datacompilation covers the following topics:

A) population B) natural population movement C) households D) migration

Topics:

Data-Tables in the download-system HISTAT (Thema: Bevölkerung)

A. Bevölkerungsstand:

A01 Bevölkerungsstand und Bevölkerungsentwicklung (1939-1989) A02 Bevölkerung nach Altersgruppen 1946-1989 A03 Männliche Bevölkerung nach Altersgruppen 1946-1989 A04 Weibliche Bevölkerung nach Altersgruppen 1946-1989 A05. Bevölkerungsgröße, Bevölkerungswachstum, Bevölkerungsdichte und Sexualproportion 1950- 1992 A06. Bevölkerung insgesamt, männlich und weiblich nach Ländern 1950-1998 A07. Fläche, Bevölkerung am Ort der Hauptwohnung und Bevölkerungsdichte für 1950, 1964, 1971, 1981 A08. Bevölkerung am Ort der Hauptwohnung nach Altersgruppen und Geschlecht 1950-1981 A09. Bevölkerung am Ort der Hauptwohnung nach Altersgruppen und Geschlecht 1950-1981 A10. Bevölkerung ab 18 Jahre am Ort der Hauptwohnung nach Familienstand und Geschlecht 1950-1981 A11. Fläche und Bevölkerung nach Bezirken 1950-1989 A12. Bevölkerung nach Altersgruppen und Geschlecht für die neuen Länder und Berlin Ost 1950-1990 A13 Bevölkerung nach Gemeindegrößenklassen (in 1000) 1950-1989

B. Natürliche Bevölkerungsbewegung

B01 Natürliche Bevölkerungsbewegung 1946-1995 B02a Eheschließungen, durschnittliches Heiratsalter, Ehescheidungen 1946-1989 B02b Eheschließungen nach Familienstand der Partner vor Eheschließung 1946-1989 B03 Eheschließende, Ersteheschließende und Wiederverheiratete (insgesamt) 1946-1989 B04 Eheschließende nach Ersteheschließenden und Wiederverheirateten (je 100 Eheschließende) 1946-1989 B05 Eheschließende nach Familienstand vor der Eheschließung (insgesamt) 1946-1989 B06 Eheschließende nach Familienstand vor der Eheschließung (je 100 Eheschließende) 1946-1989 B07 Zusammengefasste Geburtenziffer nach Altersgruppen 1952-1989 B08 Das Reproduktionsniveau der Bevölkerung 1946-1989 B09 Durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung Neugeborener in Jahren 1946-1989 B10a Geborene, Lebendgeborene und Totgeborene nach Legitimität 1952-1989 B10b Lebend- und Totgeborene nach Geschlecht 1950-1989 B11 Zusammengefaßte Geburtenziffer nach Gemeindegrößenklassen (1965-1989) B12 Altersgruppenspezifische Sterbeziffern nach Geschlecht ( standardisiert) 1964-1989 B13a Gestorbene insgesamt und gestorbene Säuglinge nach Geschlecht (1946-1989) B13b Gestorbene nach ausgewählten Todesursachen und nach Geschlecht 1947-1989 B13c Gestorbene nach ausgewählten Krankheiten als Todesursachen und nach Geschlecht 1947-1989 B14 Gestorbene infolge Suizid- DDR 1947-1989 B15 Gestorbene infolge Suizid- BRD B16 Gestorbene infolge Mord und Totschlag- DDR 1949-1989 B17 Gestorbene infolge Mord und Totschlag- BRD / Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1961-1989) B18 Die Entwicklung der Fruchtbarkeitsziffern in den beiden Teilen Deutschlands (1946/50-1995)

C. Haushalte

C01 Privathaushalte nach Haushaltsgröße 1950-1981 C02 Personen in Privathaushalten und Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen 1950-1981 C03 Mehrpersonenhaushalte nach im Haushalt lebenden Kindern unter 17 Jahren 1950-1981 C04 Privathaushalte nach Haushaltsgroesse und nach Altersgruppen des Haushaltsvorstandes 1950 bis 1981 C05 Privathaushalte nach Haushaltsgroesse und nach Altersgruppen des maennlichen Haushaltsvorstandes 1950 bis 1981

D. Wanderung

D01 Wanderung über die Grenzen der DDR 1951-1989 D02 Wanderung über die Grenzen der DDR nach Altersgruppen 1965-1989 D03 Binnenwanderungsgewinn bzw.- verlust (-) nach Gemeindegrößenklassen 1970-1989 D04 Saldo aus zu- und Fortzügen (-) über die Grenzen der ehemaligen DDR nach Gemeindegrößekl...

Subject of the study is the interrelationship between population-development and economic cycles. Lösch ask the question, how changes of the population development have an impact on economic development and vice versa: how changes in economic development have an impact on population development.

The tables, included in the Database HISTAT, are an assortment of tables, which refer to primary sources. Computed tables of the study are not included in HISTAT.

Tables in the ZA-Online-Database HISTAT:

1. Increase of employable Persons (1816-1895)
2. German cycles of employment (1846-1913)
3. Emigration and economic condition (1843-1913) 04a. Age structure of the population of the German Reich by sex in thousand (1871-1910) 04b. Age structure of female population of the German Reich in thousand, as of December, 31st (1871-1910) 04c. Age structure of the population of the German Reich by sex in thousand, by special age groups, as of December, 31st (1871-1910) 05a. Age structure of population willing to work of the German Reich by sex in thousand, as of December, 31st (1871-1910) 05b. Age structure of female population willing to work by family status in thousand, as of December, 31st (1871-1910) 05c. Age structure of population willing to work by sex and women’s family status of women in thousand, as of December, 31st (1895-1910) 06a. Age structure of the population of the German Reich by sex and women’s family status in percent, as of December, 31st (1871-1894) 06b. Age structure of the population of the German Reich by sex and women’s family status in percent, as of December, 31st (1895-1910)
4. Stock and absolute growth of persons willing to work by sex, women’s family status, and by age groups in the German Reich in thousand (1872-1910)
5. Total population and employable population in Prussia (1816-1971)
6. Migration and population growth in Germany (1871-1910)

This data compilation on the basis of official statistics of labor force gives a summarized overview over participation in work force in Germany. Those are the key themes of the compilation: - Overviews on population development (population by age groups, employable resident population by age groups and sex); - Resident population by participation in work force; - School leavers, trainees by se and by training area;
- Labor force, working population, employment rates by age groups; - Working population by occupational status; - Working population by economic sectors; - Participation in labor force in the federal states; - Working time. The compilation contains data tables with (synthetic) annual averages as well as chosen results of the micro census. These data were complemented with data on employment from the national accounts after the revised version if ESA 95.

Data tables in Histat: A. Overviews on population development A1 Population and areas (annual averages), former West Germany, newly formed German states, Germany (1946-2000) A2 Population by age group (at the end of each year), former West Germany, former GDR, Germany (1950-2000) A3 Employable resident population by age groups and sex (annual averages), former West Germany (1950-2000) A4a Employable resident population by age groups and sex (at the end of each year), Germany (1989-2000) A4b Employable resident population by age groups and sex (at the end of each year),Newly formed German states (1989-2000)

B. Resident population by participation in work force B1 Tables with annual averages B1.1 Population, working population (nationals, residents) and employers (annual averages, national accounts), former West Germany, Germany (1950-1997) B1.2 Resident population, working population, employment rate, unemployed (annual averages is 1000), former West Germany, Germany (1950-1997) B1.3 Population by sex, foreigners (annual averages), former West Germany, Germany (1950-2000) B1.4 Population, employment and unemployment (annual averages), former West Germany, Germany (1950-1997) B1.5 Employees subject to mandatory social insurance contribution (end of June), former West Germany, Germany (1974-2000) B1.6 Employees (inland) in full-time and part time employment, short-time workers, unemployed (annual averages), former West Germany (1960-2000) B1.7 Foreign employees, unemployed foreigners (annual averages), former West Germany (1954-2000) B1.8 School leavers and trainees, former West Germany, Germany (1950-2000) B1.9 Trainees by sex and training areas (at the end of each year), former West Germany, Germany (1960-2000)

B2 Tables with extrapolated results from the micro census B2.1 Employable population, working population, unemployed, labor force altogether (micro census) former West Germany, Germany (1959-2000) B2.2 Employable population, working population, unemployed, labor force by sex (micro census), former West Germany, Germany (1959-2000) B2.3 Population by participation in labor force and sex (micro census), former West Germany, Newly formed German states (1957-2000) B2.4 Employees by volume of employment and sex (micro census), Former West Germany, newly formed German states, Germany (1985-2000) B2.5 Resident population by main income source and sex (micro census), former West Germany, newly formed German states, Germany (1975-2000) B2.6 Working population by nationality, occupational status and sex (micro census) former West Germany, Germany (1976-2000)

B3 Revised results after ESA 95 B3.1 Population, working population and employees (ESA 95), unemployed (ILO), former West Germany, Germany (1950-2000) B3.2 National working population: comparison of the revisions of the employment statistics, Germany (1991-2000)

C. Working population, employees, employment rates by age groups

C1 Tables with annual averages

C2 Tables with extrapolated results from the micro census C2.1a Employable resident population by age groups and sex in 1000 (micro census), Germany (1991-2000) C2.1b Employable resident population by age groups and sex in 1000 (micro census), former West Germany (1962-2000) C2.1c Employable resident population by age groups and sex in 1000 (micro census), newly formed German states (1991-2000) C2.2 Working population in 1000 by age groups (micro census), former West Germany, newly formed German states, Germany (1950-2000) C2.3 Labor force, employment rates by sex (micro census), former West Germany, Germany (1950-2000) C2.4 Labor force, ...

Germany DE: Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data was reported at 1.056 Ratio in 2023. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.056 Ratio for 2022. Germany DE: Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data is updated yearly, averaging 1.056 Ratio from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.060 Ratio in 1977 and a record low of 1.051 Ratio in 2016. Germany DE: Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Sex ratio at birth refers to male births per female births.;United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.;Weighted average;

The contents of the present study at hand are data on the population of the territory of North Rhine-Westfalia and its government district, counties and urban counties, and the district-free cities as well for the period of the beginning of the official statistics in 1871 until to 1970 or 1980. The German Land North Rhine-Westfalia was founded in 1946. The particular value of this data compilation is the part of the data report for the North Rhine-Westphalian territory which includes the period of the German Empire and therefore the time period before the existence of this German Country. However, the counties and urban counties and communities of North Rhine-Westphalia exists already since the beginning of the 19th century and earlier (most of them since 1800), and have a history of about 200 years. Therefore, the use of historical documents and official historical statistics of these communities and counties allow the report of continuous and regional differentiated historical development of the North Rhine-Westphalian territory. The author Harald Klaudat used the historical demarcations of the counties and municipalities and their changes in the course of the history to develop an exact retrospective statistical history of population and workforce development for the period from 1871 until 1970 and partly until 1980. The author created with this comprehensive data manual the option of linking long historical time series with results of census data of the present.

Due to the extensive area changes in the period of 120 years covered, the comments are of particular importance. Because of the considerable scope of the study description, the comments, above all on the changes to the territorial boundaries, are attached as downloadable PDF-document.

An indication of additional studies: Further studies on the North Rhine-Westphalian population´s religious affiliation, Population in households by household size, and the population´s workforce by economical sectors will be processed and offered via histat for the download.

The already published data study za8681 with the title ´Historical Development of district-free cities and counties and their population´ focus on the historical development of the territory of the regions (period of existence, assignment of territories).

The data of the study at hand (ZA8682) are offered via histat under the topic ´Population´ (=Bevölkerung). The compilation refers to the following governmental districts and their counties, urban counties and district-free (independent) cities:

01 Regierungsbezirk (=governmental district) Aachen 02 Regierungsbezirk (=governmental district) Arnsberg 03 Regierungsbezirk (=governmental district) Duesseldorf 04 Regierungsbezirk (=governmental district) Cologne 05 Regierungsbezirk (=governmental district) Minden and Detmold respectively 06 Regierungsbezirk (=governmental district) Muenster 07 General territory or North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) respectively.

The following issues are statistically reported for each governmental district and its territorial subcategorization:

A. Territory and Population B. Population by Age Groups C. Population by Age Groups and by Gender D. Population Movement (marriages, births, deaths) E. Population by Family Status and by Gender

West German population.

Topics: The data come from the censuses of 1939 to 1987. The data set contains two levels of aggregation: information on distribution of religious affiliation for the Federal Republic (West) altogether and information on distribution of religious affiliation in the 11 (old) states. Besides the specific classifications of religious affiliation for every census the data set contains a common classification for all points in time.

The present study is an attempt to present the development of German livestock since the beginning of the 19th century in numbers and partly also graphically. As the objective of the investigation was to describe this development in broad terms it is based on 20 years intervals. “The information starts in 1816 because an earlier start did not seem appropriate as a consequence of the war years. The following evaluation years are 1833, 1853, 1873, 1892, 1913 and 1927. For processing the data material an appropriate demarcation of the geographical districts was of crucial importance. An appropriate unit for Prussia and Bavaria is a government district (Regierungsbezirk), for Saxony the district office (Kreishauptmannschaft), for Württemberg the district (Kreis), for Baden the federal commissioner district (Landeskommissarbezirk), for Hesse the province (Provinz) for Oldendburg the region (Landesteil) and for Alsace-Lorraine the district (Bezirk). The other regions were not subdivided. The Thuringian States have always been combined into one unit. All regions were defined after the administrative division of 1927. For Baden an earlier administrative division in 11 districts was translated into the division in four federal commissioner districts of 1927” (Ritter, a. cit., p. 5 f.).

As an Introduction to the investigation an overview over the territory size of the relevant districts will be given. This data is based on the sizes of 1927; the whole district designation is based on this year. In those tables you also find data about the population in the different districts for different years of censuses because the data of the density of livestock becomes more meaningful in combination with data about population density. For the years after the foundation of the German Empire the results of the censuses for the years of 1871, 1890, 1910 and 1925 were used. It was always possible to use numbers of population level, which are only few years away from the respective livestock census years. The population level before the foundation of the German Empire was determined through a compilation of the results of censuses of the different districts. A uniform count for all German states was first performed on December 3, 1867. For the data by the year 1833, the first of the three-year census of the Zollverein in 1834 served as a basis. Also for the numbers around 1816 appropriate data was available, partly because there was a census in Prussia in 1816.

In the description of the development of livestock horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and goats for all years of evaluation and chicken for 1912 and 1927 were taken into account. Mules and donkeys are not included due to their small importance; as well as all types of poultry besides - chickens - and bees and rabbits are not included, especially since there is no satisfactory information for the early years. Prussia started to identify spring cattle only in 1897(the first comprehensive census in the German Empire was carried out in 1900 with regard to the upcoming trade agreements; the first census for bees in the German Empire was carried out in 1873).
“We did not succeed in fining reliable data for all regions for the time around 1916 and 1833; also for the time around 1853, some gaps still remained. However, a look at the tables on the quantities of individual livestock species shows that the missing data is almost always from small regions with little importance in the overall framework.” (Ritter, a. cit., p. 4).

The basis of the representation is for all livestock species always the total number of stocks (numbers in thousands). To clearly highlight the importance of the data on the number of the different livestock species in different districts and the quantities of each livestock species per 100 inhabitants was calculated. Another part of the table describes the relations between different cattle species. “To clarify the business side of the development of the livestock sector in the last part of the study the stock of cattle of the different species is presented in relation to each of 100 cattle. Thereby a process was pursued and developed further, which for the first time was used by Th. H. Engelbrecht in his study; "The Country of the building zones except tropical countries". Besides also young cattle was recorded. In addition, the number of foals per 100 horses is given.” (Ritter, a. cit., p 10).

Data tables in HISTAT: A. Territory and population A.01 Territory in squ...

This datacompilation covers selective results of livestock-census of cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, horses, goats and stocks of bees.

The first livestock-census was in 1873. Firstly it was collected in larger time-intervals. Since 1925 the livestock-census was collected annually. Within the framework of the animal production statistics the livestock of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) are collected annually in December. Additionally interim census of cattle and sheep are collected in June and of pigs in April and August. Only each fourth year gees and stocks of bees are also collected.

Topics:

Datatables in HISTAT (research- and downloadsystem Historical Statistics):

A. German Empire (Deutsches Reich): - Livestock of the German Empire (1873-1940) - Livestock of the German Empire, according to Ernst Wagemann (1873-1934)

B. German Empire, former Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Germany: - Livestock of Germany (1873-2000)

Description:

Subject of the study: The age structure is of primary importance for the evaluation of the potential of a population in the areas of labor, economic development, consumption and also indicates needs concerning special facilities in the areas of education and the healthcare sector. Further the total population can be seen as a benchmark for the calculation of indices.

The present data from the Federal Office of Statistics sorted by age and sex for the territory of Germany is summarized in age groups of criminal responsibility. The population of Germany is measured regarding the respective frontiers – until 1989 the territory of the former Federal Republic and from 1990 on the German territory after the reunification from the third of October in 1990. The status of the indicated numbers of population is as of December 31 of each the year. The data comes from the censuses and from current population estimations. The entries on population therefore contain German and Foreign population together. With the help of the entries on non-German population altogether from the censuses and the entries on the age structure of the foreign population, taken from the data of the Central Register for Foreign Nationals, the portion of the criminal responsible non-German population will be calculated, so it can be compared to the German criminal responsible population.

Criminal responsibility means reaching an age at which the legislators think a person is capable of overviewing the consequences of his or her actions and therefore takes over the responsibility for these actions.

In the German Empire, the beginning of the criminal responsibility was with 12 years in 1871. 1923 a juvenile court law was enacted in which the age for criminal responsibility was increased to 14 years. With the “first act for the protection of adolescent dangerous criminals” in 1939 adolescents were treated as adults in front of the law only from the age of 16 on. Then after the “Reichsjugendgesetz” (Reich´s juvenile act) in 1943 the complete legal culpability and criminal responsibility started again with 12 years. The new version of the Juvenile Courts Act from October 1953 rose the age of criminal responsibility again to 14 years and this is nowadays still valid.

In the jurisdiction of the Federal Republic of Germany criminal responsibility develops with increasing age in three steps. The German panel code establishes criminal responsibility at the age of 14 years. Until the age of 14 years there is no criminal responsibility at all. The term for this used in the law is lack of culpability of the child (Schuldunfähigkeit des Kindes) (vgl. Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafmündigkeit). Adolescents (Persons who are between 14 and 17 years old) are individually criminal responsible, if committing the crime they are mature enough to realize the injustice of the crime and to act according to that realization. For those cases a special juvenile criminal law is used. At the age of 18 the full criminal responsibility starts, but for adolescents and young adults (in the age of 18 – 21 years) the juvenile criminal law can still be applied, if at the time the crime is committed the young adult is still in a moral and mental state of development that compares to an adolescent or when the crime can be seen as a youth misconduct. From the age of 21 years on the adults criminal law is applied.

Subject-matter series 10, series 3 of the statistics on criminal prosecution of the Federal Statistical Office report from the year 1978 the composition of the criminal responsible German population for the first of January of the corresponding year, structured by sex and age group.

For Germany in the frontiers after the third October of 1990 data on the criminal responsible population in the subject-matter series 10, series 3, is available only from 2007.

The data of the present study refers to the population level in the end of the year (as at 31.12 and is gathered by the population census and calculated by the current population estimations. Tables 01 to 20 contain data on the German and the foreign population altogether. Table 21 reports on the foreign population after the results of the censuses and the current population estimation. In table 22 the foreign population at the age from 0 to 15 years was estimated, using the aged grouped data of the Central Register of Foreign Nationals and the results from table 21.

These are the categ...

Keywords; Search terms: historical time series; historical statistics; histat / HISTAT .

Abstract:

The author’s aim is to give an overview of the development of the official German statistics and specially the official employment-statistics in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Data-Sources of the official statistics of the GDR about the occupation has been: - four occupation censes, which has been carried out together with the population census (1950, 1964, 1971, 1981); - special surveys about the occupation carried out by the statistical service of the former GDR; - workplace-statistics and sector-specific reporting including information about employees, done by the SZS; - further statistical reporting by governmental organisations about employment.

In order to realise comparability between the official statistics of the former GDR with the official statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the Federal Statistical Office made substantial conversions and formed new statistical groups respectively (see special tables dealing with backward projection of the GDR-statistics, Table-Part D. and E.).

Topics:

Subcategorisation of the Study (Tables of the ZA-Database HISTAT): Some Data of the GDR-employment-statistics:

I. The official employment statistics of the GDR:

A. Employed persons and population

B. Employees and apprentices by occupational status

C. Employees by economic sectors

II. Making the former GDR’s labour force statistics comparable with the labour force statistics of the former Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

D. Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden: Some Information of backward projection of the GDR’s labour force statistics into FRG-classification („ Systematics of economic sectors“, Issue 1979 (WZ)“)

III. Selected Information of population and occupation census (1950, 1964, 1971, 1981), according to the systematics of the Federal Statistics.

E. Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden: Employees of the former GDR by population and occupation census (conversion 1964, 1971, 1981) according to („ Systematics of economic sectors“, Issue 1979 (WZ)“)

Attitude of the Federal German population and census critics to the census on 31. May 1987.

Summary of three data sets archived and described under ZA Study Nos. 1588 to 1590.

Topics: 1. From the first wave of 1987: political interest; satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; feeling of political effectiveness and degree of representation by politicians and parties; orientation of government policies on special interests or public welfare; attitude to the census; intent of members of household and respondent to participate; willingness to participate after notice of threat of fine; filling out the survey form oneself or by another person in household; conversations about the census in social surroundings and time of last conversation; attitude to the census in circle of friends and acquaintances as well as their willingness to participate; importance of political attitudes in social surroundings and visibility of one´s own views; knowledge about contents of the census survey (scale); assumed difficulty in filling out survey form; preference for filling out the form in the presence of the canvasser or alone; misgivings about canvasser in residence; difficulties in carrying out official matters; frequency of contact and ability to establish contacts; trust in institutions and organizations; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; assumed position of the majority of the population on a left-right continuum; postmaterialism; sympathy scale for political parties; frequency of use of television news broadcasts as well as the local part and political part of a daily newspaper; time of last noticed media reports about the census and content tendency of these programs; assumed attitude of the population to the census; living together with a partner and his attitude to the census; assumed participation of partner in the census; response or boycott conduct in the census survey; attitude to government statistics; attitude to punishment of census boycotters and preferred governmental behavior regarding refusal; personal fears regarding misuse of personal census data; trust in observance of data protection; sympathies regarding social movements as well as personal membership; party preference; perceived fears and their causes; attitude to technology; attitude to computers and scientific innovations; attitude to government dealing with data; assessment of census refusers as system opponents; attitude to storage of personal data; importance of data protection and trust in observance of the data protection regulation; judgement on quality of data protection; earlier participation in a survey and type of survey; attitude to selected infringements and crimes as well as other illegal actions (scale); religiousness; union membership; self-assessment of social class; possession of a telephone; willingness to participate in a re-interview.

The following additional questions were posed to persons with strong or very strong political interest: demographic information on circle of close friends (ego-centered network); agreement with respondent regarding party preference and attitude to the census; willingness of friends to participate in the census; familiarity of friends among each other; personal willingness to participate in selected political forms of protest (scale); personal fears regarding misuse of personal data by selected institutions and public offices.

Demography: month of birth; year of birth; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); frequency of church attendance; school education; vocational training; occupation; occupational position; employment; monthly net income of respondent and household altogether; number of persons contributing to household income; size of household; position of respondent in household; characteristics of head of household; number of persons eligible to vote in household; persons in household who do not have German citizenship; self-assessment of social class; union membership of respondent and other members of household; possession of a telephone.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and person desiring this presence; intervention of others in interview and person introducing the intervention; attitude to the census of persons additionally present during interview; presence of further persons in other rooms; willingness to cooperate and reliability of respondent.

Also encoded was: length of interview; date of interview; ident...