Demands on the State by the Citizens (1985/86)

Attitude to democracy and demands on the state.

Topics: The content of this study is in large measure identical to the
content of the survey archived under ZA Study No. 1487.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education and school
education sought; vocational training; employment; employment of
partner; number of working hours per week; current or last occupational
position of partner; income; local residency; length of residence in
state; size of household; number of persons 18 years old and older in
household with German citizenship; number of unemployed members of
household; household income; sources of income; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; religiousness; memberships; union
memberships; offices; satisfaction with democracy; interest in
politics; political attitude (right-left continuum); party inclination;
party identification; possession of a telephone; willingness to
participate in a follow-up survey.

The following questions were posed only to employed: occupational
position; unemployment since 1976; length and frequency of
unemployment; satisfaction with job; change of job within the last five
years; estimated occupational prospects or changes in the next five
years.

The following questions were posed only to schoolchildren or students
who are at the same time employed: current and earlier occupational
position; employment before start of school or college; year in which
one was employed full-time for the last time; unemployment since 1976.

The following questions were posed only to pensioners who are at the
same time employed: current and earlier occupational position;
employment before retirement; year of retirement; unemployment since
1976; length of unemployment.

The following questions were posed only to pensioners who are not
employed: employment before retirement; earlier occupational position;
year of retirement; unemployment since 1976; length of unemployment.

The following questions were posed only to unemployed: length of
unemployment; earlier unemployment; time of unemployment; last
occupational position.

The following questions were posed only to unemployed housewives,
schoolchildren or students, those in the military or performing
community service in lieu of the military and other unemployed: last
primary occupational position; year in which one was last employed
full-time; unemployment since 1976; length of unemployment.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and
their degree of relationship to respondent; interventions of others in
interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; reliability of
respondent; length of interview; date of interview; place of survey.

Also encoded was: sex of interviewer; age of interviewer.