Summary information

Study title

Mass Communication 1990 - East Germany

Creator

ARD, Frankfurt
ZDF, Mainz

Study number / PID

ZA2823, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2823 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

1. Media-technical equipment of household and media usage habits, extent of print media and electronic media. 2. Leisure time and communication activities. Topics: 1. Media: number of television sets in household; frequency of watching television; number of radios in household and frequency of listening to radio; type and frequency of broadcasts and stations; personally preferred television broadcasts, radio broadcasts and newspaper articles; subjective indispensibility of selected topics and categories on television, radio and in newspapers; radio listening habits (stations, broadcasts, frequencies); time budget for media usage (TV, radio and newspapers) in quarter-hour rhythm; main source of information for daily events; assessment of credibility of individual media; preferred medium in future and favorite television or radio program; assessment of objectivity of reporting on television, radio, daily newspaper and magazines (scale). 2. Leisure time and communication activities: leisure activities on previous day and frequency of leisure activities; interest in politics; postmaterialism (scale); importance of areas of life. Demography: sex; age; school education; marital status; religious affiliation; employment; occupational group; income; net household income; size of household; number of children in household; possession of a telephone; state; administrative district; size of municipality classes; position of respondent in household; characteristics of person managing household. Indices: intensity of media usage. summarized values for leisure activities and media usage. Also encoded was: weekday of interview.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

08/1990

Country

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

1995

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

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