Study title

The effects of public support measures on life in rural municipalities and the company situation among farmers. Topics: Changes in the municipality in the last 15 years; reasons for these changes; local measures to improve infrastructure as well as living and working conditions; judgement on individual measures; attitude to reparcelling agricultural land and the farm for ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe; judgement on the development of tourism in the municipality; renting rooms to vacation guests; last vacation and personal participation in a recuperation or health resort stay; leisure activity; recommendations on village beautification; existence of neighborhood help; participation in adult education events; manner and extent of attendance of adult education centers; school degree of parents. Farmers were also asked: company size; changes in the company conducted and planned; subsidies applied for or received; assessment of the importance of subsidies; presence of business advisers; attitude to industry-wide cooperation; membership in co-operatives; completion of production and delivery contracts for agricultural products; assumed consequences for one´s own company from integration of agriculture into the EC; reading an agricultural technical journal; contact with other farmers. Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; number of children; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; further education; occupation; professional position; employment; professional career; household income; size of household; composition of household; housing situation; social origins; possession of durable economic goods; possession of assets; membership.