Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by educational attainment, gender and age group, annual.

Attitude to democracy and demands on the state.

Topics: The content of this study is in large measure identical to the content of the survey archived under ZA Study No. 1487.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education and school education sought; vocational training; employment; employment of partner; number of working hours per week; current or last occupational position of partner; income; local residency; length of residence in state; size of household; number of persons 18 years old and older in household with German citizenship; number of unemployed members of household; household income; sources of income; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; religiousness; memberships; union memberships; offices; satisfaction with democracy; interest in politics; political attitude (right-left continuum); party inclination; party identification; possession of a telephone; willingness to participate in a follow-up survey.

The following questions were posed only to employed: occupational position; unemployment since 1976; length and frequency of unemployment; satisfaction with job; change of job within the last five years; estimated occupational prospects or changes in the next five years.

The following questions were posed only to schoolchildren or students who are at the same time employed: current and earlier occupational position; employment before start of school or college; year in which one was employed full-time for the last time; unemployment since 1976.

The following questions were posed only to pensioners who are at the same time employed: current and earlier occupational position; employment before retirement; year of retirement; unemployment since 1976; length of unemployment.

The following questions were posed only to pensioners who are not employed: employment before retirement; earlier occupational position; year of retirement; unemployment since 1976; length of unemployment.

The following questions were posed only to unemployed: length of unemployment; earlier unemployment; time of unemployment; last occupational position.

The following questions were posed only to unemployed housewives, schoolchildren or students, those in the military or performing community service in lieu of the military and other unemployed: last primary occupational position; year in which one was last employed full-time; unemployment since 1976; length of unemployment.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and their degree of relationship to respondent; interventions of others in interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; reliability of respondent; length of interview; date of interview; place of survey.

Also encoded was: sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.