The World in the Year 2000 (Federal Republic of Germany)

Attitude to the future and expected political, social and technical
development until the year 2000.

Topics: General attitudes to the future and personal contemplation
about the future; judgement on the development of the quality of life
in relation to one´s own person, the country and the entire world;
perception of distance and expected developments until the year 2000 in
the areas of unemployment, work satisfaction, general contentment with
life, leisure time, happiness, development of society, drug abuse, the
fight against cancer, space travel, the securing of peace, disarmament,
the economic system, race problems, industrial countries in comparison
to the underdeveloped countries, international relations and science;
readiness for innovation; recommendations for conduct in Ostpolitik;
membership in clubs, a party or trade union; attitude to
co-determination and the economic system; party preference; political
participation and political extent to which informed; knowledge about
the member nations of NATO and in the Warsaw Pact; position in sibling
sequence; local residency; interest in emigration; desire for children;
satisfaction with income; attitude to foreigners.

Scales: optimism-pessimism scale after Cantril, flexibility of
attitudes (Galtung), feelings of alienation (Campbell), dogmatism
(Rokeach Scale).

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; age and number of
siblings; religious denomination; religiousness; school education;
vocational training; occupation; income; household income; size of
household; head of household; social origins; city size; state;
regional origins.