Attitude to Technology (1980)

Attitude to technical progress, the economy and the environment.

Topics: relative interest in media reporting in selected areas such as
science, technology, culture etc.; preferred source of information
about the mentioned topic areas; importance of and satisfaction in
selected areas of life; sociability and work orientation (scales);
expectation of one´s own and the general economic development in the
next five years; probability of personal impact and assessment of the
general significance of dangers to health, the economy and environment;
associations with the term technology (the same question was posed
twice in the course of the interview); acquiring durable economic goods
in the last 12 months; car possession; annual distance driven; fuel
consumption for 100 km; type of vehicle fuel used; attitude to citizen
objection against large technical projects; attitude to a coal-fired
power plant as well as to a nuclear power plant in the vicinity of
place of residence; assessment of personal extent to which informed
about the dangers of nuclear power plants; type and distance from
nuclear power plants; type and distance of the nearest large technical
company; perceived environmental pollution of residential area;
expected development of environmental pollution; assumed effects of
technology on the type of work and workplace (scale); probability of
exhausting oil reserves and preferred countermeasures; areas for
sacrificing prosperity; manner of one´s own attempts to save energy in
heating; attitude to recycling of glass and paper; preference for city
or country life; attitude to technical occupations; dealing with
mashines and technical facilities at work; personal impact of technical
innovations at work (scale); assumed jeopardy to personal job from
technical innovations or rationalization measures; judgement on the
importance as well as the harm to the environment of various branches
of industry; perceived motivating force of technical progress; areas of
desirable increased use of electronics technology; attitude to
microelectronics, computers, news technology or entertainment
electronics, technology in medicine and nuclear power plants (scales);
one´s own children in technology or engineer occupation; personal
support of a citizen initiative; party preference and party membership;
availability at home in the last 3 days.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; occupational
training; occupation; occupational position; employment; household
income; household size; household composition.