Marriage and Family Life [back to top]

Present situation

3

What is your present marital status?

How many children of the following age categories live in your household at present?

7a

Children less than 6 years old

7b

Children 6-12 years old

7c

Children 13-17 years old

9

Did you have a child born since (last interview) [wave 1 "How many children born did you have since 1988", wave 2 - wave 4 "Did you have a child born since "]

10

How many people, who live separately from you does your family support?

276

How often do you see your parents?

277

How would you describe your relations with your parents now?

278

How often do you see your children now?

279

How would you describe your relations with your children at present?

280

How often do you see your siblings now?

281

How would you describe your relations with your siblings at present?

Satisfaction

15

How satisfied are you with your marriage at present?

16

Try to imagine the marriage, which you would consider as an ideal marriage How would you estimate your own marriage comparing with this ideal?

Action

17

Would you like to change anything in your family life?

18

How are you going to change your family life? You can choose any number of answers given on the card or you can give your own answer

391

How likely, in your opinion, is it that your family life will be changed in the next 2 years?

Social Contacts [back to top]

Present situation

282

How often do you spend time with other relatives, who do not live with you at present?

283

Except members of your family how many friends do you have at present

284

How often do you spend time with your friends at present?

285

How many families/households excluding your relatives are you familiar enough with to visit them once in a while?

286

How often do you spend time with someone living in your neighborhood?

Satisfaction

290

How satisfied are you with your social contacts at present?

291

Try to imagine the social contacts which you consider as ideal How would you estimate your social contacts at present comparing with this ideal?

Action

292

Would you like to change anything in your social contacts or not?

340

How are you going to change your social contacts

Housing [back to top]

Present situation

67

How would you describe the type of house, where you live at present?

68

Which of the following descriptions does describe the best the place where you live now?

69

What is the ownership of the dwelling where you live now?

How many rooms, excluding kitchen, hall, bathroom etc:

70

Does your household have

71

Does your household need

72

How many square meters of living space does your household have?

73

How many square meters of total space, including rooms and kitchen, bath, toilet, hall does your household have now?

74

How many square meters of total space, including rooms and kitchen, bath, toilet, hall does your household need?

75

Access to WC

76

Access to bath or shower

77

Access to central heating

78

Access to cold water supply

79

Access to hot water supply

80

Access to telephone

81

Access to electricity

82

Access to electric or gas stove

83

Access to garden or other land around your house

84

Exposure to noise from neighboring apartments, stairways, noise from water pipes etc

85

Exposure to noise from trains

86

Exposure to noise from airplanes

87

Exposure to noise from industry or construction work

88

Exposure to dust, smell or exhaust from cars

89

Exposure to smoke, dust or fallout from industry or other sources

91

Supermarket in vicinity

92

Bakery in vicinity

93

Grocery store in vicinity

94

Kindergarten in vicinity

95

Primary school in vicinity

96

Post office in vicinity

97

Bus, tram, trolley-bus, train or metro station in vicinity

66

What kinds of changes have happened in your housing conditions - since last interview

What kinds of changes have happened in your house since last interview

98

-WC inside (since last interview)

99

-Bath or shower (since last interview)

100

-Central heating (since last interview)

101

-Cold water supply (since last interview)

102

-Hot water supply (since last interview)

103

-Electric or gas stove (since last interview)

104

-Telephone (since last interview)

 n.a.

-Other (since last interview)

What kinds of changes have happened in the nearest surrounding of your house

106

-New supermarket, bakery or vegetable store was opened (since last interview)

107

-New kindergarten was opened (since last interview)

108

-New school was opened (since last interview)

109

-New polyclinic, hospital or drug store was opened (since last interview)

110

-New stop of bus, tram, train or metro (since last interview)

 n.a.

-Other (since last interview)

112

How many people, including you, live with you now?

Satisfaction

134

How satisfied you are with your housing conditions at present?

135

Try to imagine the housing conditions, which you would consider as ideal How would you estimate your housing conditions at present comparing with this ideal?

Action

138

Would you like to change your housing conditions?

139

What would you like to change in your housing conditions?

142

How are you going to change your housing conditions?

143

How likely is it that you will change your housing conditions in the next 2 years?

Work [back to top]

Present situation

144

Respondent's education

147

Participated in educational programs (since last interview)

148

What are you doing now (employment status)

150

Which changes have happened in your employment  (since last interview)

153

Within which branch do you work now?

154

In what kind of organization do you work?

155

Are you employee or owner or co-owner of the organization, where you work now?

156

As an official part of your main job, that is where your Labour Book is, do you supervise the work of other employees or tell them what to do?

157

Do any of these people supervise anyone else?

158

How many people do you supervise directly and indirectly?

159

How many people work in your organization/ firm?

160

Except the main job do you have any other jobs?

164

How many hours per week do you normally work for a job, which you consider as your main job?

165

How many hours per week do you normally work in total in all your jobs, including additional job, temporary jobs, work at home etc?

166

How many years do you work at the workplace, which you consider as your main job?

167

Thinking about the next 12 months, how likely you think it is that you will lose your job or be laid off?

168

How easy do you think it would be for you to find a job with another employer with approximately the same income and fringe benefits you have now?

175

Suppose your job is endangered for some reason If you could keep it with a wage reduction, would you do so or not?

176

What would be the maximum reduction in wage you would accept? (%)

180

If you compare your wage with that of others doing the same or a similar job, do you get less than, as much as, or more than the others?

181

What percent is your salary more than that obtained by other people doing the same job

182

What percent is your salary less than that obtained by other people doing the same job

185

Which working practices normally apply to you?

186

Which working practices would you like to have?

187

Do you work on Saturdays or Sundays at your workplace or at home?

187a

Not on Saturdays and Sundays

187b

Yes, on Saturdays

187c

Yes, on Sundays

188

How many days of vacation do you have per year?

189

How many days of vacation would you like to have?

192

Could you indicate travelling time between your home and the place you work, one way?

What kind of transportation do you normally use to go to the place you work?

193a

I walk

193b

Bus, trolleybus, tram

193c

Train

193d

Car

193e

Taxi

193f

Metro

Do you consider your job as:

199a

Dangerous for your health

199b

Dangerous for your life

199c

Dirty conditions

199d

Heavy /you need to lift heavy things at work/

199e

Repetitious and monotonous

199f

Physically exhausted

199g

Mentally stressful

199h

Job where you make decisions yourself

206

From (1992-1993)(since last interview), were you unemployed and looking for work for as long as a month?

209

When you were unemployed, were you the member of family, who had the biggest income (in past year)?

213

How many hours per week would you prefer to work?

214

What kind of organization would you prefer to work for?

162

Employee or owner of the organization - second job

163

How many people are working in the organisation/firm where you work additionally?

Satisfaction

173

How satisfied are you with your work at present?

201

How satisfied are you with your present working conditions?

169

Is your job exactly what you want?

170

Are you proud of your job?

172

Do you think that you have for the work, which you are doing now (skills and knowledge):

174

Try to imagine the job, which you would consider as ideal How would you estimate the job, which you do now comparing with that ideal?

Action

219

Would you like to change your employment status or not? I mean everything that is tied with your job

220

How are your going to change your employment status in the next 2 years?

221

How likely is it that you will change your employment status in the next 2 years?

202

Would you like to change your working conditions or not?

203

What would you like to change in your working conditions?

204

How are you going to change your working conditions?

205

How likely is it that your working conditions will be changed in the next 2 years?

Finances [back to top]

Present situation

225

What was your personal income before taxes in the last month?

227

What was your total family income, including pensions, aliments, allowances, scholarships and so on in the last month before taxes?

231

How many people, including yourself, contribute to the family income, either with salary, pensions, scholarships, income from additional jobs and so on?

Which part of the 100 percent of the total family income are following sources of income?

232a

-Salary and income from additional job

232b

-Food and products which you make yourself

232c

-Pensions, scholarships, allowances, social insurance

232d

-Income from selling food and other products

232e

-Dividends from stocks, shares and vouchers

Satisfaction

234

Comparing with the average family in Russia would you say that your financial situation is:

235

Would you say your total family/household income is:

236

Do you think you were paid:

259

How satisfied are you with financial situation of your family at present?

261

Try to imagine the financial situation, which you would consider as ideal for your family How would you estimate financial situation of your family at present comparing with this ideal?

Action

263

Would you like to change your financial situation or not?

264

How do you think to change the financial situation of your family?

265

How likely is it that the financial situation of your family will be changed in the next 2 years?

General Life Satisfaction [back to top]

General

294

How satisfied are you with your life as a whole at present?

295

Try to imagine the life, which you consider as ideal How would you estimate your life as a whole at present comparing with this ideal?

297

Taken all together, how would you say you are these days: [are you happy]

298

In the last 12 months did anything very painful happen in your life?

299

In the last 12 months did anything very joyful happen in your life?

300

In general, do you find life exciting, pretty routine, or dull?