Attitude to Technology (1980)

Topics: relative interest in media reporting in selected areas such as science, technology, culture etc.; preferred source of information about the mentioned topic areas; importance of and satisfaction in selected areas of life; sociability and work orientation (scales); expectation of one´s own and the general economic development in the next five years; probability of personal impact and assessment of the general significance of dangers to health, the economy and environment; associations with the term technology (the same question was posed twice in the course of the interview); acquiring durable economic goods in the last 12 months; car possession; annual distance driven; fuel consumption for 100 km; type of vehicle fuel used; attitude to citizen objection against large technical projects; attitude to a coal-fired power plant as well as to a nuclear power plant in the vicinity of place of residence; assessment of personal extent to which informed about the dangers of nuclear power plants; type and distance from nuclear power plants; type and distance of the nearest large technical company; perceived environmental pollution of residential area; expected development of environmental pollution; assumed effects of technology on the type of work and workplace (scale); probability of exhausting oil reserves and preferred countermeasures; areas for sacrificing prosperity; manner of one´s own attempts to save energy in heating; attitude to recycling of glass and paper; preference for city or country life; attitude to technical occupations; dealing with mashines and technical facilities at work; personal impact of technical innovations at work (scale); assumed jeopardy to personal job from technical innovations or rationalization measures; judgement on the importance as well as the harm to the environment of various branches of industry; perceived motivating force of technical progress; areas of desirable increased use of electronics technology; attitude to microelectronics, computers, news technology or entertainment electronics, technology in medicine and nuclear power plants (scales); one´s own children in technology or engineer occupation; personal support of a citizen initiative; party preference and party membership; availability at home in the last 3 days.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; occupational training; occupation; occupational position; employment; household income; household size; household composition.