Political Action I (An Eight Nation Study)

Extent and manner of political participation. Value orientation and
political attitudes.

Topics: Political interest; importance of political problems;
judgement on the effectiveness of political activities; personal
political activities and personal conventional political participation;
attitude to repressive measures by the government; concept of
democracy; trust in the government; attitudes to the younger
generation; personal understanding of the terms ´left´ and ´right´;
self-classification on a left-right continuum; good and bad sides of
the most important parties; party preference and voting behavior;
sympathy scale for parties and social groups, including among others
the police, civil servants, big businessmen, unions, protesting
students, ethnic minorities and the women´s movement; materialist or
post-materialist value orientation; job orientation and job situation;
social origins; number and sex of siblings; religiousness; parental
political preferences; actual and desired income; self-estimation of
one´s social class.

For the young: topics of discussion and degree of agreement with
parents; reference groups.

Indices: political participation, political orientation, satisfaction
with life, post-materialism, social and political attitudes.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; religious
denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation;
professional position; employment; income; household income; head of
household; party inclination; party identification; political
discussion; membership.

Interviewer rating: ethnic origins of respondent; presence of other
persons; interruptions during interview; length of interview;
understanding for questions; number of contact attempts; type of
residential building.

Also encoded was: identification of interviewer; sampling point.