Live in the former GDR - Short Description

Additional questionnaire to the SOEP-Core study in 2018

Two intentions were intended with the creation of the data set:

  1. to validate the data set "The Potsdam Grievance Statistic File (PGSF) - Input statistics ("Eingabestatistiken") of the GDR between 1970 and 1989" (Krawietz et al., 2018).
  2. A retrospective survey of former citizens of the GDR on GDR from today's perspective.

Main topics of the data set are:

  • Life and life satisfaction in the GDR
  • Participation in social and political life
  • Mobility behaviour and intentions, escape
  • Experience with control, surveillance and imprisonment
  • Occupational sector and employment status 1989

Reference:

Class, Fabian, Ulrich Kohler and Marian Krawietz (2018): The Potsdam Grievance Statistics File. New data on quality of life and
participation for the German Democratic Republic 1970–1989, Historical Methods 51 (2), 92-114, DOI 10.1080/01615440.2018.1429970.

Krawietz, Marian; Kohler, Ulrich; Class, Fabian; Albrecht, Sophia (2018): The Potsdam Grievance Statistic File (PGSF). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6413 Data file Version 1.1.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12993

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