The Pulse of Europe (Czechoslovakia)

Judgement on current situation in life and political and economic
development of the country in times of economic and social upheaval.

Topics: 1. Common part of the survey for all participating countries:
most important problems of the country; intent to emigrate and country
of choice; desired occupation for one´s own child; judgement on the
work of the president of the country; fears and desires for the future;
assessment of current standard of living and comparison with the
situation five years ago and expected future development; judgement on
the situation of the country in comparison over time; preference for
freedom or social security; attitude to admission of undemocratic
parties; attitude to freedom of the press; perceived discrimination
against women; attitude to division of labor in raising children;
judgement on conduct of parliamentary representatives and attitude to
democracy in the country (scale); feeling of political effectiveness;
internal or external control; achievement orientation; attitude to the
national economy; demand for increased environmental protection; desire
for foreign support for one´s country; the government as guarantor of
equal opportunities and social security; welfare state; necessity of
the willingness to compromise in politics; interest in politics at
municipal level; diminishing interest in political events;
self-assessment as patriot; attitude to securing of peace through
military strength; readiness for national defense; necessity of
participation of one´s country in world politics; claims to territory
in neighboring countries; attitude to restriction on immigration;
attitude to use of military for restoration of world order.

Religion and morals: importance of prayer and significance of God in
one´s own life; doubt in the existence of God; attitude to prohibition
of books critical of society and to sex magazines and films; attitude
to freedom of speech even for fascists; assessment of the general
trustworthiness of people; AIDS as punishment by God; representation of
traditional values in the area of family and marriage; attitude to
abortion; clear concepts of Good and Evil; perceived intensification of
class differences; assessment of personal things in common with
uneducated and persons of another race or ethnic affiliation;
satisfaction with one´s own financial situation.

Demography: party membership; union membership; residential status;
city size; religiousness.

2. Additional questions in this survey: judgement on the new
federation and division of power between Czechs and Slovaks; judgement
on political and economic changes of the last few years; particularly
positive and negative changes; attitude to introduction of a
multi-party system and introduction of the free market economy;
judgement on the speed of transition to the free market economy;
assessment of the influence of the media and organizations as well as
institutions on the country; assumed influence of foreign nations on
one´s country; attitude to selected ethnic groups (Czechs, Slovaks,
Germans, Jews, gipsies, Hungarians); perceived threat to the nation
from within and without; judgement on the effects of social changes on
the standard of living, moral concepts, public morals, dealing of the
people with one another and on the relation of ethnic groups with each
other; judgement on the influence of the church; most reliable alliance
partner for one´s country; countries from which the greatest threat for
one´s country originates; most important fears; preference for
forgetting or calling to account those responsible in the old regime;
preference for replacement of key managers of the old regime; attitude
to privatization of selected areas of the economy and civil service;
attitude to free establishing of prices; acceptance of unemployment or
preference for government guarantee of full-employment; attitude to a
government-specified profit limitation; attitude to borrowing to
finance durable economic goods; occupation within one´s home; work
satisfaction; satisfaction with employer; preference for capitalism or
democratic (social) market economy; party preference; judgement on the
current position of women in comparison to their position in the old
regime; preference for national defense in an alliance or with
individually concluded peace treaties; judgement on the level of
defense expenditures; attitude to export of weapons into third world
countries; attitude to advertising (scale); acceptance of advertising
in selected media; desired establishing of prices through demand,
production costs or government determination; judgement on the passage
of Soviet troops from Germany through Czechoslovakia; identification as
European; attitude to Gorbachev, Bush, the Pope, the UN, the EC and
selected personalities of public life; judgement on selected western
name-brand products and company names; attitude to sale of foreign
products in the country; national pride.