Feldbericht der Befragung zur langfristigen räumlichen Mobilität

Abstract

This report at hand is the field report to the retrospective survey of long-term spatial mobility, in which information about important personal and familial events, the residential history, the places of education and employment as well as about the ownership and the usage of different mobility tools were collected for the time period between 1985 and 2004. First the approach of the survey is described. This includes the development of the questionnaire, the specification of the sample as well as the way the pretest and the main survey were conducted. Afterwards the response rate of the survey as well as the representativeness of the sample is examined. Furthermore results of first analyses are presented. Finally the survey is compared with the Swiss Household-Panel.