Growing Disharmonies Between Government Services Supplied and Society's Demand

Judgement on government services available.

Topics: personal benefit from taxes paid; most important tasks of
future government activity; judgement on the meaningfulness of
government expenditures in selected areas; most important areas for
re-privatization of government services; evaluation of level of
government expenditures; groups particularly impacted by tax increases;
tax equity; most important areas of public waste; departments and
government offices both available and missing in one´s residential
area; public institutions in one´s residential area considered
necessary and worth promoting; assessment of the attractivity of the
residential area; characteristics of residential surroundings;
satisfaction with life and housing situation in the part of town;
actual and desired neighborhood contacts; intent to move; local
residency; leisure activities; satisfaction with jobs available in
city; preference for government or private economic control over the
public health system, large concerns, social institutions and schools;
preferred financing form (tax increase, self-help or fees) for selected
public institutions; areas for financial reductions; personal
utilization of government services available; importance of selected
government services (rank order); fear of entry on trips to government
offices (scale); preferred methods of political influence; relative
relationship of government services received and personal tax payments;
social groups for whom more should be done in the future in the FRG;
characterization of authorities and offices (semantic differential);
perceived reasons for income and property differences; actual and ideal
ideas about the situation in life; preference for more government or
more private economy to achieve financial and external security as well
as for the guarantee of personal living space, protection from crimes
and job security; importance of selected government activities; general
judgement on extent of government activities; attitude to increase in
government tasks financed by taxes; achievement orientation; desired
development of government expenditures in selected areas; most
important sources of information about politics; work satisfaction
(scale); social origins; age of children; education desire of children;
minimum education requirement; savings goal; size of residence; length
of residence; residential status; recipient of housing benefit; rent
costs; social residence; receiving subsidy and income tax reduction
according to paragraph 7b; income tax return filled out; means of
transport on the way to work; number of kilometers driven annually with
car.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of
children (classified); school education; occupational training;
occupation; occupational position; employment; income; income of
spouse; household size; social origins; characteristics of spouse.