Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1989)

Attitudes to topics of domestic policy.

Topics: 1. Questions of domestic policy: satisfaction with democracy;
party preference; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election; trust in public institutions (scale); importance of federal
institutions (scale); willingness to participate in legal and illegal
forms of protest (scale); understanding for illegal or violent protest
actions; preferred development of society (scale); most important goals
of domestic policy; judgement on contacts with authorities as well as
the government view in private matters; understandability of laws;
reason for problems with authorities; attitude to the right to vote for
foreigners and easing acquisition of German citizenship; contacts with
foreigners; attitude to reduction in proportion of foreign workers;
attitude to the right to asylum; attitude to playing the National
Anthem on special occasions; national pride; attitude to the federal
flag; satisfaction with the economic situation and with selected areas
of politics; acceptance of citizens of the GDR as Germans; threat to
public safety as well as perceived increase in the threat; jeopardy to
public safety from demonstrations.

2. Attitude to Europe: preference for national or European solution of
selected political problems; assessment of the advantageousness of EC
membership for the Federal Republic; interest in the impending European
Election; intent to participate in the election; classification of the
importance of parliament decisions at municipal, Federal and European
level; expectations of the common domestic market in Europe; increase
in difficulty of combating crime through elimination of border checks;
self-assessment on a left-right continuum.

3. Attitudes to media and personal media behavior: attitude to
commercial radio and commercial television; cable connection or antenna
reception for commercial television; interest in reception of
commercial television; perceived disturbances from advertising in
commercial broadcasters and in broadcasters under public law;
willingness to pay higher radio fees to eliminate commercials;
reception of broadcasts of the Deutsche Welle and the Deutschlandfunk
during stays abroad; judgement on quality of information and reception
of these broadcasters.

4. Attitudes to environmental protection: attitude to requiring
installation of catalytic converters in new cars; car possession;
catalytic converter in one´s own car; interest in catalytic converter
installation or purchase of a vehicle with catalytic converter; time of
purchase or modification; influence of tax advantages on modification;
use of unleaded gasoline in one´s own car; using unleaded when getting
gas; assessment of the proportion of air pollution from cars,
coal-fired power plants, private furnaces, industrial facilities and
garbage incinerating plants; assessment of the improvements achieved in
these areas in the last few years; comparison of air pollution from
coal-fired power plants and nuclear power plants; living in the
vicinity of a sports and play facility; perceived disturbance by the
facility; attitude to a prohibition of sports facilities in residential
areas; perceived noise pollution from traffic, industry, neighbors and
playing field; importance of environmental protection measures in the
areas air, inshore waters noise, trash, soil and ozone layer;
availability of collection containers for used glass and personal
participation in recycling of used glass and paper; preference for
disposable packaging or returnable bottle; willingness to collect empty
cans separately; pre-sorting of household trash in a ´green trash can´;
delivering hazardous waste to collection point designated for this.

Postmaterialism; year of birth and month of birth; government
examination or diploma; religiousness; party inclination.

Also encoded was: district code and city code.