Summary information
Study title
Darmstadt Study (Public Opinion)
Creator
Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Darmstadt
Study number / PID
ZA1573, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.1573 (DOI)
Data access
Information not available
Series
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Abstract
Attitude to current problems, authorities, parties, trade unions and
the church as well as questions from the areas of culture and
education.
Topics: common residence with spouse; number of children; occupation
exercised and social position in 1938 as well as in the survey year;
union membership; party membership; party preference; monthly net
income of the family and the persons living from it; local residency;
refugee or regional origin; bombed out; greatest concerns and
difficulties; going to the movies; preferred films; frequency of visits
to the state theater and satisfaction with the theater; wishes for
structuring the program; use of offerings of the America House;
attendance at a public forum and films of the school film program in
the village; reading newspapers; attitude to the parties and their job;
satisfaction with job of the city council; judgement on the job of the
authorities and personal contact with authorities; attitude to trade
unions and strike; concepts of the work of a works council and
preferred co-determination areas; assessment of the significance of an
epidemic illness in Darmstadt and judgement on the necessity of
official preventive measures; attitude to a increased industrialization
of Darmstadt; preference for city or country regarding residence and
work; assumed city-country difference; completed insurance policies;
attitude to compulsory insurance; manner of provision for old age;
attitude to church; tasks of the church; educational goals in school,
parental home and church.
Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of
children (classified); religious denomination; frequency of church
attendance; school education; occupation; occupational position;
household income; size of household.
Interviewer rating: social class of respondent.
Topics
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Methodology
Data collection period
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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