PropertyValue
?:analysisUnit
  • Individual (en)
  • Individuum (de)
?:citationString
  • GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (2016): German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) - Cumulation 1980-2014. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA4584 Data file Version 1.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.12574 (en)
  • GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften (2016): German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) - Cumulation 1980-2014. GESIS Datenarchiv, Köln. ZA4584 Datenfile Version 1.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.12574 (de)
?:comment
  • Description of variable:
    Combined weight for person-related analyses of the German population as a whole:

    - transforms household samples to person-level
    - adjusts for the East German oversample
    (de)
  • Note:
    Transformation of Household Sample Data to Person-Level Data

    From 1980 to 1992 and in 1998, the ALLBUS data was surveyed based on a sample of households. Therefore, analyses of this data involving the characteristics of individuals (attitudes, demographic attributes, etc.) should in principle be weighted using a transformation weight that adjusts for the effect of household size on the probability of selection for each respondent. A transformation weight suitable for analyses treating East and West Germany separately is provided in wghtpt.
    Person-level analyses of data from household samples that target Germany as a whole must additionally address the oversampling of East German respondents from 1991 onwards. The appropriate weighting factors are calculated as the product of the transformation weight in wghtpt and the person-level East-West-weight in wghtpow. The combined weight is wghtptow.
    Because the effects of household size on the composition of the sample are often minimized by conditions in the field - the higher selection probability of one-person households, for example, is often offset by the fact that these households are harder to contact - transformation weighting can often be neglected. However, it is always good advice to compare the results of unweighted and weighted analyses to check for any major deviations.


    Application of weights:

    Analysis of person-related data:
    - separate for East and West Germany: wghtpt
    - Germany as a whole: wghtptow

    Analysis of household-related data:
    - separate for East and West Germany: wghtht
    - Germany as a whole: wghthtow

    See also:
    Arno Bens 2006: Zur Auswertung haushaltsbezogener Merkmale mit dem ALLBUS 2004, in: ZA-Information 59: 143-156.

    Siegfried Gabler 1994: ALLBUS-Baseline-Studie 1991 und ALLBUS 1992: Ost-West-Gewichtung der Daten, in: ZUMA Nachrichten 18(35): 77-81.

    Alexander Haarmann, Evi Scholz, Martina Wasmer, Michael Blohm and Janet Harkness 2006: Konzeption und Durchführung der "Allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften" (ALLBUS) 2004, ZUMA-Methodenbericht 06/06.

    Terwey, Michael 2013: Oversamples, Units of Analysis, and the Topic of Data Transformation, in: Michael Terwey and Horst Baumann (eds.): Variable Report ALLBUS / GGSS: German General Social Survey - Cumulation 1980-2010. ZA4576, Cologne: GESIS, GESIS Variable Reports; No. 2013/2: x - xvii.
    (de)
?:dataCollection
  • Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI) (en)
  • Persönliches Interview: CAPI (Computerunterstützte persönliche Befragung)/CAMI (Computerunterstützte mobile Befragung) (de)
?:datasetDatatype
  • Numeric (en)
  • Numerisch (de)
?:dateCreated
  • 2016 (xsd:gyear)
?:dateModified
  • 1980-01-01 (xsd:date)
?:endDate
  • 1980 (xsd:gyear)
?:groupDescription
  • Mit der Allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) werden aktuelle Daten über Einstellungen, Verhaltensweisen und Sozialstruktur der Bevölkerung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland erhoben. Seit 1980 wird alle zwei Jahre ein repräsentativer Querschnitt der Bevölkerung mit einem teils konstanten, teils variablen Fragenprogramm befragt. Die Daten stehen unmittelbar nach ihrer benutzergerechten Aufbereitung und Dokumentation allen Interessenten für Forschung und Lehre zur Verfügung. (de)
  • The German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) collects up-to-date data on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany. Every two years since 1980 a representative cross section of the population is surveyed using both constant and variable questions. The ALLBUS data become available to interested parties for research and teaching as soon as they are processed and documented. (en)
?:hasFulltext
  • true (xsd:boolean)
is ?:hasPart of
?:inLanguage
  • Deutsch (de)
  • German (en)
?:linksGroup
?:locationsId
  • DE (xsd:string)
?:measurementTechnique
  • Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section (en)
  • Längsschnitt: Trend/Wiederholter Querschnitt (de)
?:name
  • WEIGHT: E-W+TRANSF. TO PERSON-LEVEL (de)
  • wghtptow (xsd:string)
  • wghtptow - (en)
  • wghtptow - WEIGHT: E-W+TRANSF. TO PERSON-LEVEL (de)
?:relatedDataset
?:selectionMethod
  • Probability: Stratified: Disproportional (en)
  • Wahrscheinlichkeitsauswahl: Disproportional geschichtete Zufallsauswahl (de)
?:sourceInfo
  • GESIS-ExploreData (xsd:string)
?:spatialCoverage
?:startDate
  • 1980 (xsd:gyear)
?:studyGroup
  • ALLBUS (en)
  • ALLBUS (de)
rdf:type
?:variableLabel
  • WEIGHT: E-W+TRANSF. TO PERSON-LEVEL (de)
?:variableName
  • wghtptow (xsd:string)