Summary information
Study title
Public Administration and Computers
Creator
Lange, Klaus (Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), Bonn )
Study number / PID
ZA1312, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.1312 (DOI)
Data access
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Series
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Abstract
The survey contains three major topics:
1. Attitude to offices and authorities,
2. Attitude to computer technology,
3. Attitude to use of computers in public administration.
Topics: 1. Attitude to offices and authorities: attitude to government
and satisfaction with government services; attitudes to further
government regulation; conducting administrative activities in personal
occupation; frequency and type of contacts with authorities; judgement
on contacts with authorities; detailed judgement on impressions from
contacts with authorities; manner and frequency of search for
information on official matters; type of one´s own difficulties with
trips to government offices; judgement on opportunities to object to
government procedures; personal success in objecting to a government
measure.
2. Attitude to computer technology: technical interest; significance
of technology in personal occupation; word associations with the terms
nuclear power plant, car and computer; direct contacts with a computer;
general effects of computerization on the other areas of life outside
of the working world (scales); image of the computer in the media on
the one hand and in science fiction novels or science fiction films on
the other hand; ability to control computers; assessment of the
usefulness of terminal screen text and videotext as well as bank money
machines.
3. Attitude to use of computers in public administration:
understandability of computerized communications of officials; official
reason for delays by reference to use of computers; assessment of
credibility of such reasons; expected effects of use of computers in
government offices (semantic differential); attitude to dealing of
government offices with information and rights of citizens as well as
extent of government demand for data about citizens (scale).
4. Miscellaneous: general attitude to life and optimism (scale);
satisfaction in selected areas of life (scale); political interest;
fear of loss of job;...
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Methodology
Data collection period
05/1983
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Multi-stage stratified random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1984
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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