Social Infrastructure (Panel: 2nd Wave 1977)

The judgement on local infrastructure in selected cities. Satisfaction
with residential surroundings, local politics and the job of city
management.

Topics: 1. Residential surroundings: local residency and local ties;
desire to move and preferred type of place of residence; spatial
distance to relatives; detailed information on size of living space,
number of rooms and heating of residence; rent costs and costs in
addition to rent; details of a profile of demands for a new residence;
description of population structure of current neighborhood; desire for
more neighborhood contacts; satisfaction with residential surroundings
and housing conditions locally; residential status; living together
with foreigners in the building; contacts with foreigners; attitude to
limitation on proportion of foreigners in the residential area;
attitude to the right of foreigners to vote in municipal elections.

2. Judgement on public services and local politics: most important
problems and tasks of the municipality and assumed preferences of
municipal politicians; most important tasks in the area of housing
conditions and environmental protection; attitude to privatization of
selected public services; attitude to the welfare state; judgement on
financial government expenditures for the individual types of school
and further education facilities; most important problems in the school
area; attitude to the integrated comprehensive school; satisfaction
with local education facilities and public transportation; use of
various means of transport in selected situations; satisfaction and
priorities in local traffic policy and culture policies; satisfaction
with local health facilities and social facilities; assumed
consideration of group interests in traffic policy; preferred social
political measures for selected groups in the city; desired measures to
create jobs and satisfaction with job offerings in the city; attitude
to support for selected energy sources and support for environmental
protection measures given concurrent jeopardy for jobs.

3. Judgement on inner safety: assessment of the sense of security at
place of residence; fear of becoming victim of a crime; particularly
unsafe areas locally; personal impact from a traffic offense; personal
victimization experience and attitude to selected measures to combat
crime; point in time and type of crime; filing a report and its
outcome; perceived threat to the state from terrorism; preferred
measures to defend against terrorism.

4. Dealing with authorities and personal activities in local politics:
judgement on contact with authorities; institutions and their
influence; political participation and rank order of the effectiveness
of political actions; personal opinion leadership or opinion allegiance
in political questions; party preference.

5. Miscellaneous: type and length of leisure activities; desire for
additional leisure activity; satisfaction with local leisure offerings;
media usage; general contentment with life; importance of areas of life
and degree of realization of important goals in life; distance to
workplace; assessment of personal job security; year of birth of
children; date of birth; car possession; possession of a telephone;
possession of house and property; memberships; attending meetings and
honorary offices; judgement on the effect of survey results on city
management; attitude to a regular survey of citizens.

Demography: school education; occupational training; occupational
position; household size.

Interviewer rating: type of building; number of contact attempts;
willingness of respondent to cooperate; reliability of respondent;
length of interview; date of interview; identification of interviewer;
sex.