Eurobarometer 19 (Mar-Apr 1983)

Judgement on the occupational (scale) and social situation of women (scale); attitude to emancipation of women; role distribution in one´s family; full-time and part-time employment; readiness for part-time work with sacrifice of income; work orientation; influence of sex on one´s own professional career; characterization of one´s own work activity (scale); (with those searching for work: preference for full-time or part-time employment; continuation of the search even in case of adequate financial reserves; conducting paid and unpaid activities); paid household help or child care; most important criteria given fictitious search for work; attitude to only the spouse working and his presumed attitude to this; the right of the woman to housekeeping money: workplace preference for men (versus women) given high unemployment; political interest; interest in politics of partner; differences of opinion with partner in political questions; attitude to politics as ´man´s business´; trust regarding women and men in various occupations; attitude to the women´s movement; (with women: membership in a women´s initiative); judgement on selected objectives of women´s initiatives; women´s participation in municipal representation, in the Federal Parliament and in the European Parliament; assumed effects of a higher proportion of women on the work of political committees; knowledge of laws on occupational equal treatment of women; knowledge of an EC department for equal rights; level of job standards and actual level of contentment with life (scale); feeling of being happy; associations with the term ´happiness´. 3.

Views on various political problems of defense, the economy, energy, environmental pollution and legislation (scale); national pride; European citizenship; importance of peace; assessment of personal closeness with other EC countries; assessment of current and desired significance of national as well as the European Parliament; postmaterialism; approval of the unification of Western Europe; attitude to the EC membership of the country; advantages and disadvantages of EC membership; assessment of the development of relations of member states among one another; media usage; memory of news about the European Parliament in the media; knowledge about the composition of the European Parliament and the election mode; significance of the European Parliament; preference for national or European decision-making with selected problems; desired development of the EC; personal election participation in the first European Election; expected general participation in the European Election 1984 and personal willingness to participate; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; attitude to social change; commitment of one´s preferred party for the European Election; characterization of an ideal party (pairwise comparison); religiousness; world view influences on personal life; influence of religious conviction on party preference; party allegiance.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; age at conclusion of school; employment; company size; household income; household size; household composition; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; respondent is person managing household; party preference (Sunday question); degree of urbanization.