Danish Gallup Omnibus Data, 1963

Danish Gallup Omnibus Data, 1963 comprises 11 omnibus surveys carried out by the Danish Gallup Institute in 1963. A total of 12 surveys were carried out in 1963, but omnibus no. 02 could not be located among the data materials received from the Roper Center. # #Each survey contains a number of demographic variables common to all the surveys of that year, as well as a number of questions dealing with topical events. This data material contains information from all the omnibuses concerning the questions common to them. # #The questions common to all 1963 omnibuses are: degree of urbanization; sex; age; marital status; number of persons in household and composition of household; occupational status of head of household and of supporter; income of head of household and total income of family; education of respondent; occupational status of housewife; social group; type of dwelling; and party preference. # #The special questions deal with such issues as: # #Omnibus no. 01 (DDA-1249): #The best course of action in case of a breakdown in the collective bargaining: government intervention by means of enforced arbitration or a bill of compromise, or labour conflict in the form of strikes and lockouts; whether the respondent thinks there will be a general election in 1963, and whether the Government will be forced to step down or will do so voluntarily; and what the respondent thinks will be the cause(s) for the issuing of writs for a general election. # #Omnibus no. 03 (DDA-1250): #The respondent's attitude to pronouncing 56 as 'femtiseks' (fifty-six) instead of 'seksoghalvtreds' (six-and-fifty), i.e. pronouncing numerals as they are written; the respondent's opinion of the behaviour of the German troops during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, and in which ways, if any, the respondent found their behaviour worse than one would expect from occupying troops; on which products does the respondent find the consumption tax most inconvenient, and on which products has the respondent decreased consumption due to the new consumption tax; the respondent's attitude to the new 5 kr. and 1 kr. coins; whether the household listened to the radio the day before, and, if so, to which programmes and at what time of the day; whether the radio used is equipped with FM; whether the respondent watched TV the day before and, if so, when; and whether the respondent was at home the evening before (the whole evening or part of it). # #Omnibus no. 04 (DDA-1251): #How the respondent thinks the Government has managed during its tenure; whether or not the respondent is in favour of repealing the rent regulations and, if the respondent is not in favour, why not; and whether the respondent thinks it should be possible to be raised to the peerage in Denmark as it is in England. # #Omnibus no. 05 (DDA-1252): #Summer holiday plans; the respondent's income in relation to the income of friends and acquaintances; assessment of which domestic political problems are most important at present; whether the respondent thinks that voters always vote for the same party or change party once in a while, and whether wives tend to vote for the same party as their husbands; how much time the respondent spent the previous evening watching TV, and how long the household has had a TV set; whether the respondent has been to the cinema within the last week; whether the respondent sometimes goes to football matches as a spectator or watches football on TV; and the respondent's attitude to the plans of stopping TV transmissions of football matches. # #Omnibus no. 06 (DDA-1253): #Attitude to the tax exemption rule and whether the respondent's income tax would become higher or lower if this rule was repealed; attitude to P.A.Y E. tax in general, and without the tax exemption rule in particular; attitude to Danish membership of NATO and to accepting Spain as a member of NATO; attitude to an S/SF (i.e. the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist People's Party) coalition government if these two parties should obtain the majority in the Parliament after a coming general election; attitude to the Government's proposed Land Laws; and whether the respondent was vaccinated against polio (infantile paralysis) in the recent vaccination campaign and whether the respondent has been vaccinated against polio at all. # #Omnibus no. 07 (DDA-1254): #Whether the household has received the pamphlet on the Land Laws, and how thoroughly the respondent has read it; what political party the respondent thinks has done best and least well since the last general election; attitude to Denmark joining the EC with or without Great Britain; vote at the referendum on the Land Laws on 25 June; attitude to Denmark becoming a republic as things are now and if the throne should be occupied by a person outside the present Royal Family; and whether the respondent thinks that the Danish King should have more power to influence political matters than he has at present. # #Omnibus no. 08 (DDA-1255): #Whether a possible united Europe (the Common Market plus EFTA) should affiliate itself with the USA, with the USSR or stay neutral; attitude to the sentences passed in the judicial purge following World War II, and to the release of the sentenced persons before the full sentence was served; attitude to speculation in general; satisfaction with: Denmark's position in the world today, housing conditions, work and family income, the education of children, the amount of free time, the family's future prospects, the standards of living, and people's general behaviour; weekly income considered necessary for a family of four (two adults, two children), and own weekly income in relation to that amount; and whether the respondent thinks that unemployment and prices will increase or decrease within the next six months. # #Omnibus no. 09 (DDA-1256): #Assessment of the Government's performance; whether Denmark's economic situation will get better or worse in the next year; and attitude to buying South African goods. # #Omnibus no. 10 (DDA-1257): #Attitude to an S/V (i.e. the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party) coalition government; whether the Government ought to resign as a consequence of the Land Laws being rejected at the referendum, and the reason why the Government ought or ought not resign; and attitude to the Government's economic policy. # #Omnibus no. 11 (DDA-1258): #Attitude to the tax exemption rule and to the P.A.Y.E. tax system, both in general and coupled with the abolishment of the tax exemption rule; the prospects for Denmark's economic life within the next year; and satisfaction with the Danish TV programmes. # #Omnibus no. 12 (DDA-1259): #Whether the respondent believes that the tension between the East and the West will be increased or reduced in 1964; how the respondent thinks Denmark's economic situation will develop in 1964; how much the respondent intends to spend on Christmas presents; attitude to owner-occupied flats in general; and whether there are any particularly important political problems in Denmark and if there are, which ones are especially important