Effects of Data Protection

Attitude to data protection.

Topics: Occupational contact with personal data; self-assessment of
willingness to provide information about personal matters regarding
authorities; detailed determination of type and frequency of contacts
with authorities; perceived disturbances by the requests for personal
data by authorities; personal determination of wrong decisions by
authorities due to incorrect storage of personal data; attitude to a
data protection law and assessment of a government demand for storage
of personal data; detailed determinations of those authorities to whom
one would provide information without hesitation; assessment of the
danger of abuse of data; attitude to a personal identification and a
computer network of authorities; attitude to innovations and computers;
attitude to protection of the private sphere; classification of
activities in the areas private sphere and public; receipt of social
services; type of borrowing and taxes paid; completed insurance
policies; last medical treatment and number of visits to the doctor in
the last year; last hospital stay; membership in clubs or citizen
initiatives; self-assessment of status in various roles, such as e.g.
patient, borrower, citizen, insurance policy holder or in occupation;
satisfaction with democracy and the political system in the FRG;
attitude to reforms and more social justice; relationship with
neighborhood; assessment of the size of personal circle of friends.

Scales: attitudes to democracy and the social system.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; vocational training; occupation; employment; household income; size of household; composition of household; head of household; self-assessment of social class.