Political Ideology I

Political interest and political participation as well as assessment of
the effectiveness of political protest actions.

Topics: satisfaction with the economic situation and general
contentment with life; assessment of social injustice in the FRG and
designation of privileged or disadvantaged population groups;
preference of political goals; postmaterialism; evaluation of social
problems as well as assignment of responsibility for solutions to the
government; evaluation of government activities on problem solving;
personal willingness to participate in political protests; role of the
uses of force in social change and assumed goals of political use of
force; evaluation of conduct government offices in political conflict;
party identification; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament
election 1972; self-assessment of social class; assessment of personal
political effectiveness; general judgement on youth protest; trust in
the Federal Government; earlier economic conditions of parents;
socialization authorities in childhood; social origins; party
preference of parents; personal unemployment and judgement on one´s own
job security; membership in clubs or a trade union as well as degree of
activity in the organization; self-assessment on a left-right
continuum; goals in professional life; good and bad sides of the
parties.

Among young people: contact with parents; relation to family and
friends; topics of conversation and differences of opinion with
parents; classification of parents on a left-right continuum; concepts
of future life; relation with friends; occupation of friends.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; family composition;
religious denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational
training; employment; professional career; income; household income;
head of household; social origins.

Interviewer rating: presence of other persons; frequency of
interruptions during interview; interest of respondent in interview;
number of contact attempts; length of interview; date of interview.

Also encoded was: age of interviewer; sex of interviewer;
identification of interviewer and interviewer practice in weeks.