General Social Survey [United States] and German Social Survey (ALLBUS) Combined Files, 1982

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Label

General Social Survey [United States] and German Social Survey (ALLBUS) Combined Files, 1982

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• National Opinion Research Center

Author

• National Opinion Research Center

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• abortion
• civil rights
• class identity
• families
• life cycle
• morale
• morality
• quality of life
• race relations
• racial attitudes
• self concept
• Ethics
• sexual behavior
• social attitudes
• social control
• social indicators
• social issues
• social mobility
• socioeconomic status
• survey
• work attitudes
• sexual attitudes
• Self-perception
• Sex
• Social status

Genre

• survey

Summary

As part of a program of crossnational research, a collaboration took place in 1982 between the United States General Social Survey (GSS) and the Zentrum fur Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA) of the Federal Republic of Germany. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this data collection effort explored attitudinal similarities and differences between the two countries on a range of social issues. A common set of questions was included in both the 1982 GSS and the German Social Survey (ALLBUS). These common items included questions on job values, abortion, and subjective social class. The 1982 ALLBUS also contained several GSS items that were not contained in the 1982 GSS, but had been used in other years. Of the 4,497 total cases in the file, the General Social Survey portion contains 1,506 cases and the German Social Survey portion has 2,991 cases