Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1984)

Topics: satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1983; current party preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); trust in selected government and public institutions; judgement on the importance of the Bundesverfassungsschutz {Federal Office for Defense of the Constitution}, Federal Data Protection Official, Bundesumweltamt {Federal Environment Office}, Federal Criminal Police Office and Federal Bureau of the Census; government insight in the private sphere; willingness to purchase a low-pollution car, even given increase in cost of driving a car; attitude to tax relief for environmental protection cars; assignment of cause for forest death; acceptance of personal restrictions to reduce pollution of water and air; extent of personal annoyance by selected sources of noise; importance of various environmental protection measures; opinion on speed limit and partial Sunday driving prohibition; recycling of used glass and waste paper; availability of used glass containers; attitude to returnable bottles for milk; willingness to recycle further metal household trash; attitude to quiet equipment as well as to nuclear power; political participation and willingness to participate in selected public protest actions; importance of selected political objectives and perceived changes since the last Federal Parliament election; attitude to intensification of criminal law regarding demonstrations; judgement on the conduct of the police at mass demonstrations; attitude to an identity card secure against forgery and machine-readable; willingness to participate in the planned census and judgement on its necessity; ideas about an ideal society, measured on the criteria of economic growth, role of police, achievement-based standard of living, form of economy, income distribution, environmental protection, citizen involvement, welfare state and technical progress (scale).

Demography: household size and number of adult persons in household; sex; age; marital status; school degree; employment; occupation; head of household; employment and occupation of head of household; union membership; religious denomination; religiousness; party inclination; party identification; characterization of residential area based on social status of neighbors. Also encoded were: city size class, administrative district and district.