Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1987)

Political attitudes to questions of domestic policy.

Topics: satisfaction with democracy in the Federal Republic; party
preference (ballot procedure); behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election; trust in public institutions (scale);
assessment of the importance of selected Federal Offices (scale);
living in the vicinity of a sports and play facility and perceived
annoyance; perceived annoyance from selected sources of noise; intent
to participate in selected forms of political protest and militant
actions; understanding for use of force and damage to property in
political protests; concepts of an ideal society (scale); issue
relevance; personal experiences with authorities; comprehensiblity of
laws; problems with authorities caused by laws or civil servants;
attitude to snooping by the government in the private sphere; attitude
to a limitation of the length of stay of foreign workers as well as a
preference for Germans at available jobs; attitude to the right to vote
for foreigners; attitude to making it easier to acquire German
citizenship by foreigners; contacts with foreigners at place of
residence or at work; expected willingness to adapt by foreigners who
want to acquire German citizenship; attitude to a reduction in the
number of foreign workers; attitude to the right to asylum and limited
admission of the politically persecuted; attitude to making covering of
the face at demonstrations a punishable offence; attitude to an
intensification of criminal law regarding demonstrations; attitude to a
prohibition of demonstrations when acts of violence can be anticipated;
judgement on the strength of democracy compared with terrorism; extent
to which informed about measures of disaster control and civil defense;
knowledge of a public shelter close to home; personal preventive
measures for catastrophies; attitude to information about disaster
control and civil defense in schools; judgement on personal degree of
information about preventive measures of disaster control and civil
defense; attitude to expansion of disaster control and civil defense;
attitude to presence of shelters against catastrophies and the effects
of war in apartment houses and willingness to accept the costs for
space in a shelter; knowledge about the significance of various siren
wails; personal experiences with the announcement of measures of
conduct for the population in the radio; attitude to an increased
utilization of radio for advice in catastrophies; evaluation of
selected measures of government support for art and culture; assessment
of the AIDS danger; attitude to regular compulsory check-ups to
recognize the presence of AIDS infection; attitude to a compulsory
registration by name for AIDS patients by doctors; attitude to an
encrypted compulsory registration; refusing entry to AIDS-infected
foreigners; personal concerns regarding abuse of census data; attitude
to requiring payment of fines by those boycotting the census; attitude
to summer time.

Demography: year of birth and month of birth; sex; marital status;
religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school
education; occupational position; employment; assessment of personal
occupational position in comparison to that of father; number of
persons 18 years old and older in household; respondent is head of
household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination;
party identification; union memberships in household; characterization
of residential surroundings.

Also encoded was: district code and city size.