Women in Sweden 1981 - family and working life

This investigation on Swedish women aged 20-45 years shed light on their views on family and working life. The questions are divided into nine parts: Background describe marital status, household composition, housing, and environment growing up in. Furthermore the women had to state if they agreed or not with a number of statements concerning children and parenthood. Education and occupation dealt with experienced education, plans and desires on further education, time of changing from one occupation to another, attitude toward part-time work, housework and plans on going out to work after parental leave. Gainfully employed were asked questions about time spent travelling to work and working hours. Questions about pregnancy and child bearing dealt with if the pregnancy was planned, if she had to wait for a long time, if the child was wanted, if it was born at a suitable time, and if any pregnancy had been broken. The part concerning birth control dealt with the use of different contraceptives. Present cohabiting include questions about marriage and cohabiting, when moving together, and if one is married with the man one lives together with. Women cohabiting with a man, but not married to him, were asked if they were planning to get married later. Other questions dealt with the distribution of the housework, partner´s occupation and education. To get a summary of periods in her life when living together with a man, there were also a number of questions about earlier cohabiting. Women having children were asked a number of questions about child day-care child day-care used, monthly cost, and if there had been any problems in connection with the use of child day-care. There were also questions asked about the father using the possibility of parental leave, possibilities to get a baby-sitter outside of the family, who stays at home when the child gets ill, and the division of the practical work with the children among the parents. Leisure and economy deals with leisure-time activities, number of evenings she and her partner respectively spends away from home, number of weekends she and her partner respectively spends away from home. Questions about economy deals with the economical standard of the family, and if there at any opportunity had been difficult to settle running expenses. The concluding part deals with future child bearing, if one plans to have (more) children in the future, and the reason to have/not have children.