Summary information

Study title

Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1984)

Creator

Institut für praxisorientierte Sozialforschung (IPOS), Mannheim

Study number / PID

ZA1373, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1373 (DOI)

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes to questions of domestic policy. Topics: satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1983; current party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); trust in selected government and public institutions; judgement on the importance of the Bundesverfassungsschutz {Federal Office for Defense of the Constitution}, Federal Data Protection Official, Bundesumweltamt {Federal Environment Office}, Federal Criminal Police Office and Federal Bureau of the Census; government insight in the private sphere; willingness to purchase a low-pollution car, even given increase in cost of driving a car; attitude to tax relief for environmental protection cars; assignment of cause for forest death; acceptance of personal restrictions to reduce pollution of water and air; extent of personal annoyance by selected sources of noise; importance of various environmental protection measures; opinion on speed limit and partial Sunday driving prohibition; recycling of used glass and waste paper; availability of used glass containers; attitude to returnable bottles for milk; willingness to recycle further metal household trash; attitude to quiet equipment as well as to nuclear power; political participation and willingness to participate in selected public protest actions; importance of selected political objectives and perceived changes since the last Federal Parliament election; attitude to intensification of criminal law regarding demonstrations; judgement on the conduct of the police at mass demonstrations; attitude to an identity card secure against forgery and machine-readable; willingness to participate in the planned census and judgement on its necessity; ideas about an ideal society, measured on the criteria of economic growth, role of police, achievement-based standard of living, form of economy, income distribution, environmental protection, citizen involvement, welfare state and technical...
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Methodology

Data collection period

03/1984

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

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

1984

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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