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Data on political attitude in Germany after reunification 
from ALLBUS (General social survey) 1991/92,
 
Publications concerning these data:

Central archive for empirical social science research, (ZA) at the University 
of Cologne. Center of social science research and methodology, (ZUMA) Mannheim 
 (1993). ALLBUS 1980-92, Codebook ZA-number: 1795, Cologne: ZA.

Wermuth, N. and Cox, D.R. (1998) On the application of conditional 
independence to  ordinal data. Intern. Statist. Review. To appear.


Given here is a 4x5x5x2x2 contingency table with for  variables 
A,B,C,D,E with catregories i,j,k,l,r respectively. 
A,  Political attitude of respondent: How does the political system function 
    today?
    i=1: very poorly
    i=2: poorly
    i=3: well
    i=4: very well
    
B,  Type of formal schooling of respondent
    j=1: basic schooling incomplete (ÔHauptschuleÔ not finished)
    j=2: basic
    j=3: medium ('Realschule')
    j=4: upper medium ('Fachhochschulreife')
    j=5: intensive ('Abitur')
    
C,  Age group of respondent
    k=1: 19-29
    k=2: 30-44
    k=3: 45-59
    k=4: 60-74
    k=5: >75
   
D,  Time of survey
    l=1: 1991
    l=2: 1992
    
E,  Region of survey
    r=1: West Germany
    r=2: East Germany


The 4x5 Table of variables AB is given at the 10 levels of CD for West Germany
in columns 1 to 5 and for East Germany in columns 6 to 10. For CD, the levels
of C change fastest (see detailed labelling in table  A of the Appendix, i.e.
layout of the 40x10 matrix of counts is: 

    _________________
         r=1    r=2
        -----  -----
    ikl   j      j
    _________________  
    
Selection criterion: persons who were no longer in school 
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