The Situation of Fathers in 1964 (Federal Republic, Agricultural Intact Families)

Educational goals and views about the situation of mothers in agricultural companies. Topics: Judgement on the future of agriculture; professional image of the farmer; daily working hours; division of workload between spouses; manner of neighborhood help; attitude to specialization in agriculture; work satisfaction; educational goals; judgement on one´s own raising children; division of child-raising tasks between husband and wife; contacts with teachers; conduct with differences of opinion in one´s family; daily concerns as family father; satisfaction with marriage; significance of the work of wife for a good life together; interest in conversations with wife; decision structure in one´s family; concepts of the role of women (scale); assumed strongest demands on wife; ideas about improvement in the situation of mothers in farming families; household help; personal help in household; help of children in household; attitude to a mothers recuperation vacation for one´s wife; judgement on health of wife; attitude to maternity leave for a farming woman; frequency of nervousness; priority of investments: household or agricultural company; judgement on debt burden; judgement on household furnishings; general dreams; love of order; monthly income from milk deliveries to dairies; other sources of income; satisfaction with income; judgement on economic situation; company land and possession of tractor; membership in clubs and organizations; information about club leadership; belonging to a group meeting regularly in the evening; religiousness; leisure activity; reading daily newspapers and particularly interesting topics; preferred radio and television broadcasts.

Demography: age (classified); religious denomination; school education; vocational training; income; housing situation; state; possession of durable economic goods. Interviewer rating: judgement on satisfaction of respondent, willingness of respondent to cooperate; city size; condition of residential building; type of building and stables.