Effects of Data Protection

Topics: Occupational contact with personal data; self-assessment of willingness to provide information about personal matters regarding authorities; detailed determination of type and frequency of contacts with authorities; perceived disturbances by the requests for personal data by authorities; personal determination of wrong decisions by authorities due to incorrect storage of personal data; attitude to a data protection law and assessment of a government demand for storage of personal data; detailed determinations of those authorities to whom one would provide information without hesitation; assessment of the danger of abuse of data; attitude to a personal identification and a computer network of authorities; attitude to innovations and computers; attitude to protection of the private sphere; classification of activities in the areas private sphere and public; receipt of social services; type of borrowing and taxes paid; completed insurance policies; last medical treatment and number of visits to the doctor in the last year; last hospital stay; membership in clubs or citizen initiatives; self-assessment of status in various roles, such as e.g. patient, borrower, citizen, insurance policy holder or in occupation; satisfaction with democracy and the political system in the FRG; attitude to reforms and more social justice; relationship with neighborhood; assessment of the size of personal circle of friends.

Scales: attitudes to democracy and the social system. Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; vocational training; occupation; employment; household income; size of household; composition of household; head of household; self-assessment of social class.