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• Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas (German Centre of Gerontology (DZA))
• Tesch-Römer, Clemens (German Centre of Gerontology (DZA))
• Wurm, Susanne (German Centre of Gerontology (DZA))

• Infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaften GmbH, Bonn (Data Collector)

• Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)

• GESIS:
  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Gerontology, Sociology of Aging
  • Political Economy
  • Business Administration
• DZA Scheme:
  • Soziology
  • Psychology
  • Gerontology
  • Economics

• TheSozWiss:
  • old age
  • elderly worker
  • family
  • Intergenerational relations
  • social network
  • retirement
  • health
  • residential behavior
  • grandparents
  • value

• Abstract

  The German Ageing Survey (DEAS) is a longitudinal survey for the analysis of life situations and biographies of people in the second half of their lives. The data is based on nationally representative surveying (cross-sectional and longitudinal) of some thousand participants from the age of 40 onwards.
  
  Up to now data of the DEAS have been collected in 1996, 2002, 2008, 2011 and 2014. In 2002, 2008, 2011 and 2014, previous participants have been re-surveyed (panel).
  
  In 2008 as in the previous survey years, the following topics
  have been conducted:

  •         Occupational Biography, Work and Retirement
  •         Social Participation and Voluntary Work
  •         Partnership, Family and Intergenerational Relations
  •         Household and Social Network
  •         Living Arrangements and Mobility
  •         Economic Status and Saving
  •         Social and Financial Support
  •         Quality of Life and Well-Being
  •         Health and Health-Related Behaviour
  •         Help and Care-Dependency
  •         Attitudes, Norms, Values and Images of Old Age 

• 2008-04-01 / 2008-11-30

• Germany (DE)

Base Sample (N=6205): Disproportionally stratified population register sampling according to age (40-54, 55-69, 70-85 years old), Gender and geographical location (East/West) of the German population living in private households.

Panel Sample (N=1991, corrected number of respondents compared to version 2.0): repeated survey of participants from the previous base samples.

• Face-to-face interview: CAPI/CAMI
• - computer assisted personal interview (CAPI)
• - drop-off questionnaire
• - testing of lung volume

• Unit Type: Individual
  Number of Units: 8196
  Number of Variables: 2135
  Type of Data: SPSS and Stata
  

• Is documented by
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.2008.D.001
  
• Is documented by
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.2008.D.002
  
• Is new version of
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.2008.M.002
  
• Is continued by
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.2014.M.001
  
• Is continued by
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.2011.M.002
  
• Continues
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.2002.M.003
  
• Continues
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.1996.M.004
  
• Is documented by
  DOI: 10.5156/DEAS.1996-2011.D.001