Security and Defence Issues, New Zealand, 1983

Topics in this survey include: respondent's reading on 1983 nuclear arms control negotiation in Geneva; willingness of US and USSR to reach agreement on nuclear weapons reduction; amount of attention respondent pays to defence and security issues; heard of ANZUS; support for ANZUS; support for variety of forms of defence co-operation; US or New Zealand benefits more from ANZUS; ANZUS and risk of attack of New Zealand; trust in US to come to New Zealand's defence; visits by US nuclear powered warships; reasons for support/oppose visits by US warships; South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; support for South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; activities that could be prohibited in South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; possibility of enforcing South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; self-placement on left-right spectrum. Standard variables include household size, age, marital status, schooling, occupation of respondent or of main income earner, household income, sex, area. This study is the second of four (SSDA No's 521 to 524) commissioned by the United States Information Service between 1982 and 1985 on New Zealanders' attitudes to defence issues. Similar studies were carried out in Australia at the same time (SSDA No's 525 to 532) which contain some parallel questions.