Detroit Area Study 1966

Topics: judgement on public expenditures and the economic situation; attitude to work permits for foreigners and desired employment policies of the government; extensive determination of social network; relationship with neighbors and colleagues; friendships; membership in clubs and organizations; leisure activities; social distance to ethnic groups; attitude to race problems and the Klu Klux Klan; attitude to trade unions and communists; religious denomination of parents; social and regional origins; local residency; housing conditions; self-assessment of social class; sympathies in wage conflicts; occupation and success orientation; judgement on various occupations; weekly working hours; educational goals; desired number of children; party preference of respondent and father; naming closest friends.

Scales: work satisfaction, authoritarianism, dogmatism, sociability and traditional family ideology. Demography: age; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); age and number of siblings; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; occupation; professional career; type of company; household income; head of household; party inclination; party identification; self-assessment of social class.