Interview about the Interview

Attitude of the Cologne population to interviews and ethical and religious matters.

Topics: Attitude to interdenominational schools and mixed marriage; interest in religious matters; Christian commandments as models of behavior; religiousness; evaluation of family and marriage; attitude to divorce; evaluation of pre-marital and extra-marital sexual intercourse; age at first intimate relations; knowledge and evaluation of contraceptives; contraceptives used; masturbation; media usage and reading level; newspapers read and subscribed to; preferred newspaper categories; judgement on general and personal economic conditions; judgement on payment; net income and organization of expenditures; satisfaction with income; decision behavior with financial problems; savings account; interest knowledge; savings goals; will to save; planned acquisitions; assessment of surveys; knowledge about survey institutes; comparison of universities and private survey institutes; evaluation of various forms of question; preferred form of interview.

Demography: sex; age (classified); marital status; age at marriage; religious denomination; occupation; school education; vocational training; further education; religious denomination of spouse; income; household income.

Interviewer rating: length of interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; with almost all questions the interviewer simultaneously also estimated the assumed sincerity of the answers given; degree of education of respondent.