Metal Workers' Strike

On the occasion of the metal workers´ strike in Baden-Wuerttemberg a
quickly planned study was conducted on the immediate reactions of the
population to the wage conflict and basic attitudes to trade unions and
the right to strike.

Topics: Interest in politics; attitudes to strikes, trade union and
lock-out; knowledge of demands of the workers and offers of the
employer side; assumed sympathy of the population for the one side or
the other; assumed reason for price increases; judgement on the
opportunities to earn of workers; membership in a trade union.

Also encoded was: date of interview.

Demography: age(classified);sex; marital status; religious
denomination; school education; occupation; employment;
head of household; state.

Interviewer rating: city size.