Spring Study 1986

Judgement on parties and politicians, political attitudes.

Topics: confidence in the future; judgement on the economic situation
in the Federal Republic and evaluation of further developments in a
year; interest in politics; sources of information of political news;
goals in life and basic position on life; the most important social
goals (scale); party inclination; attitude to technology and acceptance
of technology (scale); understanding of democracy (scale); personal
swing voting; behavior at the last Federal Parliament election in 1983;
satisfaction with the party elected; party preference (first and second
vote, ballot system); relevance of issues; the parties´ ability in
issues; judgement on the performance of the Federal Government;
judgement on foreign policy; jeopardy to world peace through the USA or
the Soviet Union; attitude to NATO; assessment of the future
development of unemployment in the Federal Republic; preferred social
system; satisfaction with unions as representatives of employees´
interests; national pride; satisfaction with democracy; self-assessment
and classification of the federal parties on a left-right continuum;
importance of selected moral concepts and their realization in the
Federal Republic (scale); attitude to the entry of the Greens into the
Federal Parliament; sympathy-scale for the federal parties; sense of
duty and achievement orientation (scale); personal opinion leadership
and political commitment; importance of areas of life: family,
profession and leisure; attitudes to family, partnership and children
(scale); ideal number of children; living together with a partner;
housework and the allocation of duties within the partnership; housing
situation and housing status; assessment of housing quality of
residential area; frequency of moving and mobility for professional
reasons; reasons for occupation; work orientation; proportion of
respondent´s income in total household income; interruption of
occupation for family reasons; job satisfaction and pride in one´s
profession; frequency of job changing; attitude to work (scale);
expectations of an ideal occupation (scale); conflict felt between
family and profession; leisure needs; most important leisure
activities; percentage weighting of leisure time, work and family;
self-evaluation of thrift; consumption orientation; mobility within
generations; the significance of religion in the parental home;
personal religious orientation and attitude to religion (scale);
occupation in civil service; possession of telephone; willingness to
participate in a follow-up survey; consent to storing of address at the
survey institute.

Interviewer Rating: presence of other people during the interview and
their relationship to the respondent; intervention in the interview by
other people; willingness of respondent to cooperate; reliability of
the respondent.

Additionally encoded were: duration of interview; date of interview;
sex of interviewer; size of city.