Leadership in the Federal Republic of Germany (Population Survey for the Mannheim Elite Study 1981)

Topics: most important problems of the FRG; judgement on the importance of political goals; attitude to selected topics of domestic and foreign policy, such as e.g. the comprehensive school, ecology and competitive ability, foreign aid, EC sovereignty, government supervision of primary industry and banks, reduction of social services, ban on employment of radicals as teachers and civil servants, co-determination and private radio stations; judgement on policies to reduce tension and Soviet foreign policy; attitude to nuclear energy; political interest; party preference; sympathy scale for the CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and the Greens; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; preferred government coalition.

Scales: understanding of democracy; dogmatism; postmaterialism. Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; occupation; employment; income; household income; household size; household composition; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; person managing household. Also encoded was: weekday of interview; size of municipality class, politically and after Boustedt; administrative districts.