The Attitude of the German Populace to Technology

Acceptance of technology and attitudes to technology.
Topics:
judgement on technology:
agreement with selected statements about positive or negative consequences
of technical development currently and in the future;
ability of technical progress to solve problems regarding environment,
unemployment, business, health and traffic;
acceptance of technology in general;
attitude to large technologies and technology in the working world;
agreement with selected statements about technology, environment and politics
(environment or health orientation, prosperity or business orientation);
advantages or disadvantages of technical progress for the people
in general and in selected areas of daily life (household, leisure time,
medicine and education).
Interest in technology:
social and technically oriented socialization;
readiness to participate in decisions about technical developments;
technology orientation;
extent to which informed and need for information about technical developments
in selected areas;
agreement with subsidies for selected research areas such as nuclear energy,
sun energy, gene technology, automation, space travel,
OEPNV {local public passenger transport}, multimedia, medicine technology and
technology in the car.
Attitude to future technologies:
acceptance of multimedia and communication technologies in daily life and
in medicine;
attitude to gene technology in agriculture, production of foods and
therapy for geneticically-caused illnesses;
reasons and groups hindering technical progress in Germany;
most important reasons for unemployment in Germany.
Demography:
sex;
age;
head of household;
employment;
occupation;
school education, employment and occupation of head of household;
marital status;
size of household;
composition of household;
number of children;
religious denomination;
union membership;
residential status;
net income.
Also encoded was:
survey date;
city size;
state.