Population and Technical Progress

Topics: Interest in technology; technical talent and technical knowledge; sources of information about technology; evaluation of the speed of technical progress; associations with the term technology; attitude to technology (scale); evaluation of the effect of technology on various areas of life of the people and on the environment; evaluation of success up to now of scientific research as well as of the possibilities and limits of scientific research in the future; benefit of space travel; attitudes to equal rights for women, the contraceptive pill, the death penalty, sexuality and fashion (scale); attitude to coeducation; tasks of the school; perceived influence of special interest groups on politics and society; attitude to left-wing and right-wing radicalism in the civil service, the NPD, the KPD prohibition, military service and empirical social research; membership in clubs and organizations; ideas about the school education of boys and girls; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1965 and party preference; religiousness.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; number of children; religious denomination; occupation; head of household; self-assessment of social class; social origins; place of birth; regional origins; refugee status; membership. Interviewer rating: social class and willingness of respondent to cooperate; presence of other persons and their degree of relationship to respondent; sincerity of the responses; frequency and length of interruptions of interview; number of contact attempts; reasons for lack of interview with multiple contact attempts.