Summary information

Study title

Darmstadt Study (Workers)

Creator

Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Darmstadt

Study number / PID

ZA1574, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1574 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude of workers to occupation, colleagues, superiors and the representatives of their interests. Topics: local residency; refugee; bombed out; social origins; detailed information on occupational career, type and headquarters of company, length of employment and earnings; time worked each week; arranging work; job satisfaction; working in occupation learned; considerations on choice of occupation of children; job security; threat of the general unemployment situation; topic of conversation with superiors; atmosphere at work; attitude to the necessity of a works council; presence of a works council; satisfaction with the works council; judgement on cooperation of works council with management; personal membership in works council; attitude to contacts between works council and trade unions; union membership; time of joining and activity as functionary; participation in trade union events and reading of trade union newspapers; reasons for membership in a trade union; attitude to trade union functionaries; political interest; party membership; assessment of personal economic development; characterization of an ideal superior according to age, sex, independence and sympathy with personal matters; preference for more job security or higher income. Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; vocational training. Interviewer rating: judgement on reliability of responses to the trade union questions; social class of respondent; willingness of respondent to cooperate.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/1949 - 01/1950

Country

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Random selection

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1972

Terms of data access

C - Data and documents are only released for academic research and teaching after the data depositor's written authorization. For this purpose the Data Archive obtains a written permission with specification of the user and the analysis intention.

Related publications

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