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

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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.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

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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