Study title

Religion and values. This study number comprises the data collected during the so called main studies. The main studies represent three surveys which have partially been used for methodic experiments. The questions are identical in every survey except for the described differences. Topics: attitude towards the environment: willigness to spend part of the income on the environment; disastrous consequences of human intervention in nature; human ingenuity will ensure that the earth stays inhabitable; nature´s self-regulation compensates the influences of the modern industrialized countries; an ecological disaster is inevitable; importance of areas of life (work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure, politics, religion, voluntary work, health); self-assessment of religiosity (scalometer); confession, frequency of church attendance; importance of religious birthday, wedding and funeral ceremonys; relationship between church and politics (church leaders should not try to influence people´s election decision; church leaders should not try to influence the government´s decisions); religious belief and sciences (too much trust in sciences); religion as a source of conflicts; pious people´s intolerance; evaluation of the power of the church and religious organizations; belief in God. Demography: born in today´s Germany; state of birthplace; if not born in today´s Germany: since when does the respondent live in Germany (year); where did the respondent mainly live during his youth; if the respondent lived in Germany during his youth: state; citizenship; willigness to move into one of the new or one of the old states; willingness to move into another EU country; local ties; previous regional mobility; in contact with foreigners living in Germany; in contact with Germans (if the respondent is not a German citizen); attitude towards immigration to Germany (immigrants of the same respectively a different ethnic group and immigrants from poorer non-European countries);...