The Situation of Fathers in 1964 (Federal Republic, Non-Agricultural Intact Families)

The occupational and familial situation of fathers in the FRG. Topics: Daily working hours and monthly overtime; work satisfaction; commuting time to work; side job; attitude to employment of women; judgement on raising children by the wife and personal conduct with differences of opinion between mother and child; manner and extent of one´s own help in household; manner and extent of helping of children in household; discussing occupational difficulties with spouse; decision structure in one´s family; assessment of love of order of wife; greatest concerns as family father; satisfaction with marriage; concepts of the role of women (scale); desire for conversations with wife; relationship with relatives; attitude to neighborhood help; attitude to a social year for girls; personal opinion allegiance; nervousness and tiredness in the evening; eating habits; last visit to the doctor; position of both spouses in sibling sequence; last vacation; savings goals; frequency of reading daily newspapers and particularly interesting topics; reading magazines and picture magazines; listening to radio and television broadcasts and preferred broadcasts. Demography: age (classified); number of children; position in sibling sequence; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training; further education; income; household income; size of household; composition of household; housing situation; self-assessment of social class; social origins; state; possession of durable economic goods; membership; media usage. Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to cooperate; city size; condition and situation of residence; assessment of satisfaction of respondent.