Summary information

Study title

Church Membership Survey of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) 1982

Creator

Allgaier, Walter (Pastoralsoziologische Arbeitsstelle der Ev.-Luth. Landeskriche Hannover)
Cornehl, Peter (Pastoralsoziologische Arbeitsstelle der Ev.-Luth. Landeskriche Hannover)
Koch, Traugott (Pastoralsoziologische Arbeitsstelle der Ev.-Luth. Landeskriche Hannover)
Lukatis, Ingrid (Pastoralsoziologische Arbeitsstelle der Ev.-Luth. Landeskriche Hannover)
Matthes, Joachim (Pastoralsoziologische Arbeitsstelle der Ev.-Luth. Landeskriche Hannover)
Rendtorff, Trutz (Pastoralsoziologische Arbeitsstelle der Ev.-Luth. Landeskriche Hannover)
Roessler, Roman (Pastoralsoziologische Arbeitsstelle der Ev.-Luth. Landeskriche Hannover)
Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Bayern
Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau

Study number / PID

ZA2420, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2420 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude of protestant Christians to their church. Topics: Constituting characteristics for the protestant denomination; selected reasons for infant baptism; attitude to baptism; preference for infant baptism or adult baptism as well as for state or church kindergarten as well as reason for this decision; the meaning of confirmation; confirmation of respondent; regular attendance of children's service; attitude to current children's service; experiences and memories of one's own confirmation classes; closeness of father and mother as well as of respondent with the church; perceived change and direction of change in closeness with church; disappointment or lack of interest as reason for reduced closeness; attitude to church membership (scale); occasion for the last conversation with a protestant pastor or minister; time of conversation; general impression of conversation partner; knowing the pastor in one's parish and frequency of contact; occasion for the last house visit of the pastor; attitude to a house visit by the pastor; knowledge of further employees of the church parish and identification of the most important church employee; active participation in church life and type of participation; frequency of church attendance; last church attendance on a holiday; participation in family, political, ecumenical or youth services; participation in Communion service in the new form; extent to which informed about church conventions; sources of information about church conventions; general judgement on and attitude to church conventions (scale); preferred relief organization for a donation; knowledge about the protestant relief organization; donation readiness with house-to-house and street collections for selected purposes and projects; general attitude to house-to-house and street collections; desired and actual commitment of the protestant church in selected religious and social areas; frequency of discussions about religion, church...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

09/1982 - 11/1982

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

a) Quota sample b) Beyond the representative sample five ´special samples´ were drawn: 1) respondents with a net household income of over 3000 DM (those with high income) 2) respondents with high school graduation or university/college degree. 3) residents from large cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich) 4) workers (employed skilled workers, unskilled and semi-skilled workers) 5) young people and young adults between the ages of 14 and 24 years

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

1994

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.

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