Part-Time Working Men and Househusbands (Partners, 1st Wave)

Attitude to decision of partner to become househusband or part-time employee. Topics: residential status; importance of areas of life; ideal family size; educational goals; detailed information about school education and employment; detailed information about occupational career since conclusion of school; year of marriage and as appropriate year of divorce; information on partnership; assessment of reasons of partner to take on part-time work or become a househusband (by means of the same scale items also presented to the men); personal stand and influence on decision of spouse; major reasons for agreement or rejection of partner´s decision; division of tasks in the household and in raising children as well as child care; desire for children and occupational plans for the future; religiousness; possession of a telephone; agreement with a follow-up survey and retention of address by the survey institute. The following questions were additionally posed to women who currently or earlier had been employed: job satisfaction (scale); time worked each week and daily working hours. Interviewer rating: presence of other persons during the interview and their relationship to respondent; intervention of these persons in the survey; assessment of the reliability of responses given and willingness of respondent to cooperate. Also encoded was: length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer; sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.