Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1984)

Attitudes to questions of domestic policy.

Topics: satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; behavior
at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1983; current party
preference (Sunday question and rank order procedure); trust in
selected government and public institutions; judgement on the
importance of the Bundesverfassungsschutz {Federal Office for Defense
of the Constitution}, Federal Data Protection Official, Bundesumweltamt
{Federal Environment Office}, Federal Criminal Police Office and
Federal Bureau of the Census; government insight in the private sphere;
willingness to purchase a low-pollution car, even given increase in
cost of driving a car; attitude to tax relief for environmental
protection cars; assignment of cause for forest death; acceptance of
personal restrictions to reduce pollution of water and air; extent of
personal annoyance by selected sources of noise; importance of various
environmental protection measures; opinion on speed limit and partial
Sunday driving prohibition; recycling of used glass and waste paper;
availability of used glass containers; attitude to returnable bottles
for milk; willingness to recycle further metal household trash;
attitude to quiet equipment as well as to nuclear power; political
participation and willingness to participate in selected public protest
actions; importance of selected political objectives and perceived
changes since the last Federal Parliament election; attitude to
intensification of criminal law regarding demonstrations; judgement on
the conduct of the police at mass demonstrations; attitude to an
identity card secure against forgery and machine-readable; willingness
to participate in the planned census and judgement on its necessity;
ideas about an ideal society, measured on the criteria of economic
growth, role of police, achievement-based standard of living, form of
economy, income distribution, environmental protection, citizen
involvement, welfare state and technical progress (scale).

Demography: household size and number of adult persons in household;
sex; age; marital status; school degree; employment; occupation; head
of household; employment and occupation of head of household; union
membership; religious denomination; religiousness; party inclination;
party identification; characterization of residential area based on
social status of neighbors.

Also encoded were: city size class, administrative district and
district.