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
Information not available
Series
Not available
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.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
10/1949 - 01/1950
Country
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Random selection
Kind of data
Not availableData 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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